Geography of Missouri, With An Historical Sketch of the State;
The book Geography of Missouri, With An Historical Sketch of the State; was written by author Greenwood, James M[ickleborough] [from Old Catalog] Here you can read free online of Geography of Missouri, With An Historical Sketch of the State; book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Geography of Missouri, With An Historical Sketch of the State; a good or bad book?
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Unfortunately, in 1832 the Black Hawk War, then being waged in Illinois against the Sacs and Foxes, greatly alarmed the frontier settlers, causing many to desert their homes and flee to the older settlements fir protection. 122. To prevent aggressions on the part of the Indians, Major-General Gentry was placed in command of a thousand mounted infantry and dispatched to the protection of the northern border of the state. Within a few months, how- ever, this excitement had died away, only to be f...ollowed by a great calamity ; this was the appearance in St. Louis of that ter- rible scourge known as Asiatic cholera. Numbers of the panic-stricken inhabitants fled from the city to escape the dread disease, and many who remained succumbed to its malignance. 123. The election of Daniel Dunklin to the head of the state government took place in 1832; and the census of the same year showed the population of the state to be 176,236. The next year the Mormons, who had settled in Jackson County, and whose presence there had become extremely distasteful to the citizens, were ordered to leave the county.
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