Facsimile reprint. Originally published as vol. 11 of American commonwealths: Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1888.

Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi -- French domination in the Mississippi Valley -- Spanish domination -- The Louisiana Purchase -- Louisiana Territory : 1804-1821 -- The Missouri Compromise -- Admission of Missouri into the Union -- From 1820-1844 -- The annexation of Texas and the conquest of New Mexico -- The Jackson Resolutions : internal improvements : education -- Kansas troubles : progress of the state : election of 1800 -- The legislature and the Constitutional Convention : Missouri decides for the Union -- The Arsenal, Camp Jackson, and the second meeting of the convention -- Springfield and Lexington : the Confederates evacuate the state -- From the evacuation of the state to the end of the war -- Abolition of slavery : the convention of 1865 and test oaths.