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The Rocky Mountains are located between Missouri and California.
1,850 road miles.
About 1700 miles to the border of Missouri.
In 1860.
Pony Express or Wells Fargo
It is 1,669 miles according to Google Maps.
Between St. Joseph Missouri and San Francisco California.
To allow California to join the Union as two states - North California and South California - divided by the line of the Missouri Compromise.
It provided seven-day mail service between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California
This ninth Spanish mission to be established in California is located in the northern section of Southern California, between the coastal cities of Oxnard and Santa Barbara. It looks to be about a 5-block walk from the mission to Surfer's Point Park, on the beach. See the related Mission Home Page listed below for Visitor Information such as Driving Directions:
170 miles taking this route:Take U.S. 54 NORTH from Camdenton to I-70. Follow signs to I-70 EAST to ST. LOUIS.Take I-70 EAST to U.S. 40 EAST/U.S. 61 SOUTH to CHESTERFIELD at EXIT 210A.Take U.S. 40 EAST/U.S. 61 SOUTH to Chesterfield.
The Missouri Compromise of 1850 created the state of Missouri. It resolved much of the tension that had existed between pro and anti slavery factions in the country. Missouri was admitted as a slave state and California was admitted as a free state keeping the balance of slave and free states.