Nicknames: Show Me State, Cave State and Mother of the West
Motto: Let the good of the people be the supreme law
In 1860, a line was launched from St. Joseph in Missouri to Sacramento in California, the "Pony Express" courier route - riders covered a distance of 3,000 kilometres in 10 days. km.
Although Mark Twain described the Mississippi River in his books, his hometown lies on the Missouri River. A museum is dedicated to him in the house in Hannibal, where he spent his childhood.
