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     There's nothing particularly special about Missouri. The state has mountains - the Ozarks - but they're not the tallest ones around. And it has rivers - the Missouri and Mississippi - but they aren't the longest or strongest. Missouri's cities - St. Louis and Kansas City - are large and diverse, but don't rival Chicago. So what are you going to get from moving to Missouri? A plainspoken, straight shooting, slightly skeptical environment where your neighbors aren't afraid to tell you what they mean and proper etiquette doesn't get quite the same respect it might in Massachusetts. Missouri isn't called the "Show Me" state because there's all that much to see there, but because in order to convince a Missourian of something, empty words aren't enough.

     Missouri's reputation probably has something to do with its frontier legacy. During the mid-19th century, Missouri was the starting point for wagons heading to California and Oregon (hence Missouri's other nickname, "Gateway to the West"). The pony express made stops here, and outlaw Jesse James was born in Kearney and died in St. Joseph. Wherever it came from, Missouri's trademark incredulity was summed up best by Congressman Willard Vandiver in 1899 when he said that pretty speeches didn't mean much to him, "I'm from Missouri, and you've got to show me."

     Now that you're moving to Missouri, there are a couple facts you'll want to keep in mind, so you can correct anyone who tries to show you otherwise:

• Missouri's population is 5,595,211. The state capital is Jefferson City, but its largest city is Kansas City.
• Stubbornness is also a familiar quality to Missourians. The official state animal is the mule.
• Both the ice cream cone and iced tea were invented during the hot summer of 1904 in Missouri, at the St. Louis World's Fair.
• Kansas City, Missouri has more fountains than any other city on earth but Rome.
• During the 1860 presidential campaign, Valentine Tapley, a true blue Missouri Democrat declared that if Abraham Lincoln won he'd never shave again. When Tapley died in 1910 his beard was over 12 feet long.
• In Natchez, Missouri it's against he law to provide beer "or any other intoxicants" to elephants.