Little Dixie (Missouri)
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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.
Boonslick
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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
Little Dixie (Missouri)
…Because Southerners settled there first, the pre-Civil War culture of the region was similar to that of the Upper South. The area was also known as Boonslick country. A 1948 article in the Missouri Historical Review defined the antebellum "Little Dixie" region as a 13-county area between the Mississippi River north…
The County Election by Missouri artist George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879), portrays early political life of the American Western frontier in Missouri
The salt spring known as Boone's Lick State Historic Site in western Howard County, Missouri