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ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI

The first time I ever saw St. Louis, I could have bought it for six million dollars, and it was the mistake of my life that I did not do it.
- Life on the Mississippi

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.
- Life on the Mississippi

 
Great Republic steamboat

The Great Republic steamboat circa 1870 anchored at the St. Louis levee.
From a stereocard in the Dave Thomson collection.

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