The world: historical and actual . eans the pi esent state bear-ing that name. Its boundaries were fixed as now in1817, when it was admitted as a state. It was oneof the first states to secede, and did not regain staterights until 1870. Nearly all of its area is capableof cultivation, but only a small part is actually im-proved. It is densely wooded. Cotton is the greatstaple. The state is well adapted to general farmproducts, including livestock. Jackson is the cap-ital and Vicksburg the chief city. It has produced south, stretches the great State of Missouri. Itschief city, St. Louis, grew o
The world: historical and actual . eans the pi esent state bear-ing that name. Its boundaries were fixed as now in1817, when it was admitted as a state. It was oneof the first states to secede, and did not regain staterights until 1870. Nearly all of its area is capableof cultivation, but only a small part is actually im-proved. It is densely wooded. Cotton is the greatstaple. The state is well adapted to general farmproducts, including livestock. Jackson is the cap-ital and Vicksburg the chief city. It has produced south, stretches the great State of Missouri. Itschief city, St. Louis, grew out of a fur-trading post,and as early as 1775 had acquired considerable prom-inence. After the Louisiana purchase and the or-ganization of the Territory of Orleans the unorgan- o JO ized portion of the purchased possession was knownas the District of Louisiana, and in 1805 as the Ter-ritory of Louisiana, with St. Louis as its name was changed to Missouri in 1812. It ap-plied for admission to the Union as early as
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