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English: Playing quoits in Florida, Missouri. Identifier: whattoseeinameri00john Title: What to see in America Year: 1919 (1910s) Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940 Subjects: United States -- Description and travel Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited Contributing Library: New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
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Text Appearing After Image: Quoits in the ViLLAdK W hkhe M.\iiK Twain Was Born XXX Missouri When Father Marquette and his companions came downthe Mississippi in 1673 their frail canoes were almost over-whelmed at the mouth of the Missouri, whose yellow torrentswept masses of driftwood, including entire uprooted trees,into the main stream with great violence. Marquette wasinterested to note that the clear water of the river from thenorth and the muddy torrent from the west continued sideby side without mixing for many miles. The Missouribears an Indian name, which means Big Muddy. It is2908 miles long, while the Mississippi above their point ofmeeting is only 1330 miles. The former contributes thelarger amount of water to the joint stream. It is subject totwo annual floods, one in May caused by the melting of snowon the lowland prairies, the other in June caused by themelting of the mountain snows. The earliest Missouri settlement was St. Genevieve, fifty 276 Missouri 277 miles down the Mississippi from St. Louis
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