Excerpt from History and Government of Missouri The following chapters aim to give in reasonable compass the essential facts in the history and government of the state of Missouri. The author is fully aware that much of interest in the history of thenstate has been omitted and that many of the details of the state and local government have not been described. He has constantly kept in mind, however, the needs of those for whom this work is written, and also the limited amount of time in the public school curriculum that can be allotted to Missouri history and civics, and it is his hope that the book will fill its place acceptably in the work of the seventh and eighth grades or in the first year of the high school. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.