The Boonslick, or Boone's Lick Country, is a cultural region of the state of Missouri along the Missouri River that played an important role in the westward expansion of the United States and the deve
The County Election by Missouri artist George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879), portrays early political life of the American Western frontier in Missouri
Little Dixie is a historic 13- to 17-county region along the Missouri River in central Missouri, United States. Its early Anglo-American settlers were largely migrants from the hemp and tobacco distri
Percentage of slaves by county in the slave states in 1860. Little Dixie's isolation from the core slaveholding regions of the South is apparent.