The river rises in a region of granite mountains in Iron County, Missouri, and flows generally southwardly through the Ozarks and the St. Francois Mountains near Missouri's highest point Taum Sauk.

Daniel Dunklin rose to the state's highest office when he defeated John Bull of the Anti-Jacksonian Party 50. 8-percent to 45. 2-percent to become Missouri's fifth Governor.

Missouri's capital is Jefferson City.

Missouri's geography is highly varied.

* October 30 – American Civil War: The bill for Missouri's secession from the Union is passed.

A few days later, Blake – in the role of Judge Manville – announces he is planning a gala reception for Louise, Carlos, and Count Romero before they return to Spain, and he enlists Dave's guys and Missouri's dolls to pose as Annie's society friends.

On the night of the reception, the police – certain Dave is responsible for the missing reporters – surround Missouri's club, where the gang has assembled for a final rehearsal.

Canoeing and fishing are popular on the Eleven Point River, which is Missouri's only National Wild and Scenic River.

Marble Hill is a part of Missouri's 156th Legislative District and is currently represented by Shelley ( White ) Keeney ( R-Marble Hill ).

Marble Hill is included in Missouri's 8th Congressional District and is currently represented in the U. S. House of Representatives by Jo Ann Emerson ( R-Cape Girardeau ).

Ozark is part of Missouri's 7th congressional district.

The population was 4, 277 at the 2010 census, Malden is within Missouri's 8th congressional district.

Troy is home to Cuivre River State Park, one of the largest of Missouri's state parks.

Macon is one of Missouri's richest coal bearing counties.

Arrow Rock is home to one of Missouri's State Historic Sites, Arrow Rock State Historic Site.

Eminence is located in the center of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Missouri's largest national park and the nation's first protected river system.

* Shelbyville is the hometown of Norm Stewart, Missouri's winningest Head Basketball Coach ( retired ).

Ladue is Missouri's best educated city, proportionately, with 74. 5 % of adult residents ( 25 and older ) holding an associate degree or higher, and 71. 8 % of adults possessing a baccalaureate degree or higher ( 2000 Census ).

Piedmont is a part of Missouri's 156th Legislative District and is currently represented by Shelley ( White ) Keeney ( R-Marble Hill ).

Piedmont is included in Missouri's 8th congressional district and is currently represented in the U. S. House of Representatives by Jo Ann Emerson ( R-Cape Girardeau ).

The city is also home to the Webster County Museum and the Missouri Walk of Fame, which is Missouri's version of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Illinois' Shawnee National Forest, Missouri's Iron County and the maples of Hiawatha, Kan. should be at their best in mid-October.

During the secession crisis in Missouri at the beginning of the American Civil War, Atchison sided with Missouri's pro-Confederate governor, Claiborne Jackson.

On October 28, the Big 12 Conference's press release announcing its invitation to West Virginia University hinted at Missouri's imminent departure, as Missouri was not listed among the " expected " members for the 2012 – 13 school year.

William Dalton was believed to be the grandfather of Missouri's sitting governor at the time the town was named, but the contributor has not yet found sources to support that claim.

The Potosi Correctional Center, which opened in 1989, housed Missouri's death row and the state's executions were handled at the prison until 2005.

The team played at St. Louis, Missouri's Sportsman's Park.

All of them have since been digitized and are currently online at the University of Missouri's digital archives.

The American Association of State Highway Officials approved the first part of the extension in May 1930, following the rest of Missouri's Route 16 to the Oklahoma state line, and several state highways to Enid, before absorbing US 164 to a terminus at Amarillo.

Skyline Elementary School was presumed to be named as such because you could see the Kansas City, Missouri's skyline from the area around the school at the time.

It forms the Missouri-Arkansas border in the bootheel and eventually exits the state at Missouri's lowest point in the " toe " at above sea level.

Although it is often stated that certain trails began in certain cities on the Missouri River, emigrants following any of the three trails typically left from one of three " jumping off " points on the Missouri's Steamboat serviced river ports: Independence, Missouri or Saint Joseph, Missouri, or Council Bluffs, Iowa ( Once known as Kanesville, Iowa until 1852 ; after river dredging in the early 1850s, the latter town at the Missouri-Platte confluence became the most common departure point since it was close in proximity to the River Plattealong which the eastern trails ascend to South Pass above Fort Laramie ).

With the retirement of U. S. Senator Kit Bond at the conclusion of the 111th Congress, Emerson became the dean, i. e., the longest-serving member, of Missouri's congressional delegation.

A second page editorial in the Charleston Courier ( then Mississippi County, Missouri's newspaper of record ) summed up the mood prevalent in Southern-leaning border counties as the Crittenden proposals fell: " Men at Washington think there is no chance for peace, and indeed we can see but little, everything looks gloomy.

The complex also includes the 45-story Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center ( which was Missouri's tallest building when built ), a Westin hotel, and two upscale residential apartment skyscrapers.

One of the earliest historical accounts of Missouri's role in the Civil War written by former Confederate Col. John C. Moore, who also states that a quorum was present at the session:

Currently, the largest scoreboards are located at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio, and Kansas City, Missouri's Kauffman Stadium.

In 1971 Steve Cash, Randle Chowning, John Dillon, Elizabeth Anderson, Larry Lee and Michael Granda began playing together with Bill Jones ( flute, horns, formerly of Mike Bunge's band Granny's Bathwater ) and Rick Campanelli ( piano ) at Springfield, Missouri's New Bijou Theater for small crowds of friends on Wednesday night under the name " Family Tree " (" Emergency Band ," " Burlap Socks " and " Buffalo Chips " were other names they considered for this grouping in the early days ).

I. J. Kwitny ( president of the medical staff at St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital ), and graduated in 1962 from the University of Missouri's School of Journalism.

Anderson was the Grand Marshall at Missouri's 2002 Homecoming football game, in which Missouri beat the University of Kansas.

* Missouri's only Hydrogen Filling Station is located at the Missouri University of Science and Technology campus.

Around this time, Mayo left for a winter to work as an assistant at the University of Missouri's medical department.