Missouri Crossroads of the Nation tells of the development of the state born at the site of two great rivers in the center of the American Continent. It was born at the time of the 19th century's emperial competition for resources. It quickly assumed a central role in the drama of the nation's "manifest destiny" and weathered hatred from without and within during the Civil War. Even today, Missouri draws strength from it's diversity and the differences of its geography, people and ideas, big city and small town, prairie and mountain, bankers and farmers, technocrats and conservationists, Jeffersonian ideals and machine politics. An illustrated chronology of significant events enhances the text and puts ait all in perspective.
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