the largest city in Missouri; a busy river port on the Mississippi River near its confluence with the Missouri River; was an important staging area for wagon trains westward in the 19th century | a dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Missouri |
king of France and son of Louis VIII; he led two unsuccessful Crusades; considered an ideal medieval king (1214-1270) | a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union |
| the longest river in the United States; arises in Montana and flows southeastward to become a tributary of the Mississippi at Saint Louis |
| a member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri |