'In the first bend to the left [location of present-day Big Lake State Park is Situated a Butifull & extensive plain, Cover'd with Grass resembling Timothy except the Seed which resembles Flax Seed, this plain also abounds in Grapes . . . — — Map (db m288218) HM
"at [blank] P M we met a Mr. Alexander La fass and three french men from St. Louis in a Small perogue on his way to the River Platt to trade with the Pania Luup or Wolf Indians. This man was extreemly friendly to us he offered us . . . — — Map (db m288223) HM
You're standing on a refuge that is 7,440 acres of diverse habitat along the eastern edge of the Missouri River floodplain. With a distance of more than 2,341 miles, the Missouri River is America's Longest River and flows from the Rocky Mountains . . . — — Map (db m216822) HM
One of 6 counties formed in the Indian Platte Purchase Territory, annexed to the State 1837, Holt County was organized in 1841 and named for State legislator David Rice Holt. The county's 456 square miles, bounded west and south by the Missouri, . . . — — Map (db m179434) HM
Louisiana Purchase 1803Numerous states emerged including Missouri in 1821, doubling the size of the United States. Acquisition of the Platte Purchase Indian Territory in 1836 extended the State boundary westward to the Missouri . . . — — Map (db m179439) HM
