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Across the Wide Missouri was created in 1947.
Check out this quote from Wikipedia on the Missouri Compromise (which, I'm assuming is what you need more information on): "Controversy over whether Missouri should be admitted as a slave state, resulted in the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which specified that Louisiana Purchase territory north of latitude 36° 30', which described Missouri's southern boundary, would be organized as free states and territory south of that line would be reserved for organization as slave states. As part of that compromise, the admission of Maine as a free state was secured to balance Missouri's admission as a slave state."
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Missouri is bordered by Iowa to the north; Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee across the Mississippi River to the east; Arkansas to the south; and Nebraska across the Missouri River, Oklahoma, and Kansas to the west.
Missouri is 240 miles across, about 1800 miles from Reno.
The trip across the Oregon Trail started in 1841 and ended in 1869.
In spring 1805, they continued to the headwaters of the Missouri River, struggled across the Continental Divide at Lemhi Pass, and headed west along the Salmon, Clearwater, Snake, and Columbia Rivers to the Pacific. They landed at the mouth of the Columbia River, Astoria, Oregon on November 5 1805.
The Missouri compromise, which was agreed upon by the pro-slavery and anti-slavery parties of the United States, allowed to join the Union but no other slave states could be admitted above the 36'30'' parallel in the Louisiana Territory.
In east-central Missouri, on the Mississippi River just south of the confluence with the Missouri River. It is about midway between Iowa and Arkansas, across the Mississippi River from Illinois.
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