13 St. Louis Slang Terms You Should Know
From purposeful mispronunciations and secret shorthand to one very oddball question, these are the slang terms you should know before setting foot in the STL.
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From purposeful mispronunciations and secret shorthand to one very oddball question, these are the slang terms you should know before setting foot in the STL.
I tend to be a history buff. For that reason, I decided I needed to know how and why Missouri ended up with a bootheel. The answers are varied and some are hysterical even blaming Arkansas for the appendage on the bottom of the Show Me State.
I tend to be a history buff. For that reason, I decided I needed to know how and why Missouri ended up with a bootheel. The answers are varied and some are hysterical even blaming Arkansas for the appendage on the bottom of the Show Me State.
Among the other events occurring in 1821 was the election of John Hardeman Walker as Sheriff of New Madrid County. Walker had come to Missouri territory from Tennessee in 1810, settling in Little Prairie, which was near present-day Caruthersville.