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It's not so unusual that Missourians considers themselves at once Midwestern and Southern. After all, Missouri is bordered by eight distinctly regional states: Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska making up the Midwestern team, and Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, and Arkansas around or below the Mason-Dixon line. Its most famous son, Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) actually considered himself a Southernernot surprising with all those tales woven on the banks of the Mississippi. And before the borders were drawn, there was a time when 21st state in the Union was simultaneously owned by France, Spain, and the fledgling United States, giving Missourians a distinctly ingrained sense of going with the flow from their very beginnings. Even the terrain makes versatility a part of the state's natural make-up: from the soft hills of the northern plains to the Ozark Mountains in the south, and the many rivers and lakes in between (hence the translation of its Siouan name, "place of large canoes").
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Attractions1859 Jail, Marshal's Home & Museum
114 S. Main St.
Independence, Missouri 64050 Description: Behind the 12 limestone jail cells once filled with Jackson County's rowdiest residentslike... Read More
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American Jazz Museum
1616 E. 18th St.
Kansas City, Missouri 64108 Description: Honoring the jazz greats—Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, and more—the... Read More
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Anheuser-Busch Brewery
12th and Lynch sts
St Louis, Missouri Description: Anheuser-Busch, one of the world's largest beer brewers, was established at this site in the... Read More
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