On January 8th, we posted the blog entry "Prayer for Statehood." This week we follow with a related blog about John Hardeman Walker, whom we will dub "Father of the Bootheel;" his contemporaries called him "Czar of the Valley." Popular petitions, or prayers, circulated in 1817-1818 (as quoted in our earlier post) called for Missouri's southern border to be a parallel line at 36 degrees 30 minutes.
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Thursday, January 13, 2011
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