Missouri: A Bicentennial History

Author/Contributor(s):	Nagel, Paul C
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Date:	08/01/1977
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Missourians could hardly have made a more appropriate decision than to name their capital city after Thomas Jefferson. A meeting-place of major rivers, Missouri became a gateway to the promised land--the beckoning West opened up to Americans by Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase.