Eureka is a city located in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, between St. Louis and Pacific, Missouri, along Interstate 44.

Polk argued instead for extending the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific Ocean, which would prohibit the expansion of slavery above 36 ° 30 ' west of Missouri, but allow it below that line if approved by eligible voters in the territory.

The Knights failed in the highly visible Missouri Pacific strike in 1886.

Everything west from North Dakota to the Pacific was unknown, except that the Rocky Mountains existed, that the upper Missouri seemed to flow from that direction and that on the other side of the Rockies the large Columbia River entered the Pacific.

The route of Lewis and Clark's expedition, up the Missouri River to its headwaters, then on to the Pacific via the Columbia River, may have been influenced by the purported transcontinental journey of Moncacht-Apé by the same route about a century before.

* 1843 – The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri.

This prohibiition of slavery extended all the way from the western boundary of Missouri to the Pacific Ocean.

* September 23 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition reaches St. Louis, Missouri, ending a successful exploration of the Louisiana Territory and the Pacific Northwest.

Profile of the Pacific Railroad from Council Bluffs / Omaha to San FranciscoThe Union Pacific's of track started at MP 0. 0 in Council Bluffs, Iowa on the eastern side of the Missouri River, the location of its Transfer Depot where up to seven railroads could transfer mail and other goods to Union Pacific trains bound for the west from which they then crossed the river over the Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge ( opened in 1873 ) to Omaha, Nebraska.

) After the rail line's initial steep climb through the bluffs of west Omaha and out of the Missouri River Valley, the route followed the Platte River west through Nebraska, establishing many townships along the way ( Elkhorn, Grand Island, North Platte, Ogallala, Sidney, Nebraska ), the Colorado Territory ( Julesburg ), the Wyoming Territory ( Cheyenne, Laramie, Green River, Evanston ), the Utah Territory ( Ogden, Brigham City, Corinne ), and connecting with the Central Pacific at Promontory Summit.

The UP's Missouri River Bridge between Council Bluffs and Omaha directly connected the Union Pacific mainline to the East in 1873.

* Council Bluffs / Omaha proposed by Thomas C. Durant via an extension of his proposed Mississippi and Missouri Railroad via the new Union Pacific Railroad.

First he ran up the stock of his M & M Railroad while secretly buying stock in the depressed Cedar Rapids and Missouri Railroad ( CR & M ), then running up CR & M stock with new plans to connect the Union Pacific to it at which point he began buying back the M & M stock at depressed prices.

The Union Pacific would not connect Omaha to Council Bluffs until completing the Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge in 1873.

* Failed amendments to the Wilmot Proviso by William W. Wick and then Stephen Douglas extending the Missouri Compromise line ( 36 ° 30 ' parallel north ) west to the Pacific ( south of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California ), allowing the possibility of slavery in most of present day New Mexico and Arizona, and Southern California.

This unit is one of several SD70ACe locomotives the UP has painted in stylized colors to help preserve the image of the railroads it has merged ; the others are Missouri Pacific Railroad, Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, Chicago and North Western Railway, Southern Pacific Railroad, and Western Pacific Railroad.

* Arkansas and Missouri Railroad

When the First Transcontinental Railroad was proposed in the 1850s, Atchison called for it to be built along the central route ( from St. Louis through Missouri, Kansas, and Utah ), rather the southern route ( from New Orleans through Texas and New Mexico ).

The selection of the city over Leavenworth, Kansas, for the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad bridge over the Missouri River brought about significant growth.

* St. Joseph, Missouri via the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad ( H & SJ ).

Later he served on the board of the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad and lobbied with many others for congressional approval and funding of the transcontinental railroad.

* The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 ( based on an earlier bill in 1856 ) authorized land grants for new lines that would " aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean ".

The line from San Francisco, California, to Toledo, Ohio, was completed in 1909, consisting of the Western Pacific Railway, Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, Missouri Pacific Railroad, and the Wabash Railroad.

* Missouri Pacific Railroad

* Missouri Pacific Railroad reporting mark

* 1877-St. Louis general strike, St. Louis, Missouri, an outgrowth of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 in the United States

* 1902 Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad line arrives in Travis County.

The state of Missouri took possession of the Pacific Railroad in February 1866, when the company defaulted in its interest payment.

In 1902 the Missouri Pacific Railroad passed through the county.

They then traveled overland up the Blackfoot River and crossed the Continental Divide at Lewis and Clark Pass and on to the head of the Missouri River.

In the 1780, they had crossed the Mississippi River from the East and spread throughout Southeast Missouri.

" On September 1, 1821, his party crossed the Missouri River at Arrow Rock and set out along what would become in a few years the Santa Fe Trail.

The city is crossed by U. S. Route 36, U. S. Route 65 and Missouri Route 190.

The Burlington and Missouri built a line from Lincoln to Columbus, but stopped there ; for their diagonal route across Nebraska, they chose one that crossed the Union Pacific at Grand Island rather than Columbus.

The Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad built a line that crossed the region in 1908 and a post office was established in the community in 1910.

The townsite was platted in 1886 by the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway three miles north of Kingston, on open prairie already crossed by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas line.

Aboriginal impact with The Divide in North America was largely undocumented until the early 19th Century, when the Corps of Discovery first crossed then recrossed it in search of a waterway connecting the Columbia and Missouri drainages.

Born Julia Boggs Dent at White Haven plantation west of St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Colonel Frederick Dent, a slaveholding planter and merchant, and Ellen Wrenshall-Dent, Julia was rather plain in appearance and squinted through crossed eyes.

The continuous ≥ 219 mile (≥ 352 km ) track left by the tornado was the longest ever recorded in the world: the tornado crossed from southeastern Missouri, through Southern Illinois, then into southwestern Indiana.

The final portion of Route 62 crossed southern Missouri to Springfield on an existing main highway that had been numbered 16 by the state.

It crossed several small highways before crossing the Missouri River into Wyandotte County, Kansas.

On September 23, 1877 several hundred Nez Perce crossed the Missouri at Cow Creek in their flight toward Canada.

The Nez Perce crossed the Missouri at several places.

Their interest evidently waned by the time they crossed the Missouri River, as they stopped in Doniphan County, Kansas.

Later it was discovered that several thousand votes were cast fraudulently by " border ruffians " who had crossed into the territory from Missouri in order to cast pro-slavery ballots ( The vote was overturned by a subsequent election in August 1858, and Kansas was later admitted to the Union in 1861 as free state.

The Border Ruffians were pro-slavery activists from the slave state of Missouri, who in 1854 to 1860 crossed the state border into Kansas Territory, to force the acceptance of slavery there.

By June 4, they had marched across Indiana and Illinois, reaching the Mississippi River, which they crossed, entering Missouri.

( Signatory for Dominion of Canada, accepting the Japanese Surrender ) knew Mamoru Shigemitsu ( who accepted The Surrender of Japan for the Japanese Emperor and Government ) from their diplomatic days in Shanghai, their eyes crossed when Mamoru Shigemitsu boarded the Missouri, they mutually smiled with recognition, and then Mamoru Shigemitsu realized where he was and became stern and serious.

Once they had crossed, they charged Marmaduke across an open field ; during this charge, Union troops from Missouri and Arkansas battled Confederates from these same two states.

On September 23, the Nez Perce crossed the Missouri River near Cow Island landing, the head of navigation for steamboats on the river and a collection and distribution center for military supplies destined for Fort Benton and other forts.

On September 25, Miles received a dispatch informing him of the Cow Creek fight and that the Nez Perce had crossed the Missouri going north.