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With the exception of two years in the early twentieth century, the state of Missouri has always allowed the death penalty for capital crimes. The state legislature abolished it in 1917, only to reinstate it two years later.

The Boone’s Lick Road was the first major conduit to the trans-Mississippi West after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.

From the time Confederate forces were driven out of Missouri in early 1862, General Sterling Price, former commander of the Missour

The Stone Prairie Home Guard (SPHG) was the first Union military organization active in Barry County, Missouri, during the Civil War.

Jacques Phillippe Clamorgan arrived on the Missouri frontier in the early 1780s and spent the rest of his long life as a trader, land speculator, merchant, financier, statesman, explorer, and promoter. Abraham P.

The grandson of Jacques Clamorgan, Cyprian Clamorgan wrote The Colored Aristocracy of St.

John Malang, “The Father of Missouri Roads,” was born on September 9, 1866 or 1867.

The original Red’s Giant Hamburg on Route 66 in Springfield, Missouri, was a legendary roadside spot for almost forty years before it closed in 1984.

Jolly Mill, a grist mill and whiskey distillery, was built in the late 1840s on Capps Creek in eastern Newton County, Missouri.