Cherokee detachments crossed southern Missouri in 1838–39 on the northern route of the Trail of Tears. Parts of that route are marked as a National Historic Trail today.
Missouri is also Osage homeland. Warren's 1857 map is small-scale — what sources describe the older Osage routes that later roads followed?
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