Excerpt from Gazetteer of the State of Missouri: With a Map of the State, From the Office of the Surveyor-General, Including the Latest Additions Ans Surveys, To Which Is Added an Appendix, Containing Frontier Sketches, and Illustrations of Indian CharacterIn the prosecution of this plan, it is believed that such sketches of frontier character, and as much of Indian history and illustration of mountain life as the limits of the volume (in the appendix) will compass, can in no way diminish the value of the production.For a portion of the readers of the Gazetteer we look be yond the limits of the state, and it may be presumed that all those who design emigrating westward, all who have friends and kindred in the Far West, and as many as con template, with patriotic impulses, the growing importance of any portion of the union, will peruse, with gratification pro portioned to the interest they cherish, the contents of these pages.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.