This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...Missouri valleys led away from the Ohio Valley route. Missouri was very largely settled from the states of the northern South. In 1850, of those not born in the state, 12 per cent came from Kentucky, 8 per cent from Tennessee and over 45 per cent came from the slave states. The Kanawha, Cumberland and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...Missouri valleys led away from the Ohio Valley route. Missouri was very largely settled from the states of the northern South. In 1850, of those not born in the state, 12 per cent came from Kentucky, 8 per cent from Tennessee and over 45 per cent came from the slave states. The Kanawha, Cumberland and Tennessee rivers afforded an easy exit from Kentucky and Tennessee to the Ohio. The soil and climate were not unlike those of the home states, and while many of the settlers did not own slaves, yet they were accustomed to slavery. Moreover, since by the Ordinance of 1787 slavery was excluded from the states north of the Ohio, Missouri was somewhat more congenial to settlers from the South, although it must be remembered that in 1850, when we have the earliest census statistics on nationality, over 30 per cent of Missouri's inhabitants came from northern states. The state was well known along its main streams, since trappers and fur traders had been long at work before the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804. Just as New Englanders found a climate and glaciated topography familiar to them in the Northern Mississippi Basin, Southern settlers found institutions, climate, and, in some degree, soils to which they were accustomed. Settlement of the Physiographic Provinces.--The Alluvial and Loess Belt was naturally early settled, although the lead regions of the Ozark Border and Center were early explored and thinly settled. However, like most mining settlements, the latter regions were not sought by home seekers and their population was somewhat transient. By 1810 the Mississippi Flood Plain below St. Louis was settled by an agricultural population and a line of settlement extended back about 50 miles from the river (14 a). The settlement, however, did...
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