so no wonder she stomped on my question

the birthplace of the bootheel was not caruthersville at all
as the place proclaims
but walkers mind
which was concentrated 2 miles downriver from there at the time
& therefore not even close to the bounds of modern caruthersville

now i hope we can do as well on the other part of the original
question
long since clipped
regarding the ok panhandle

because i believe that also involved a bit more than bus&ss gives
like political struggles etc

of course the territory of modern ok was by 1890 the last remaining
hole in the lower 48
& tho ok preceded az & nm into the union
it was really just the last catchall of miscellaneous lands reserved
to indians & the public domain

so thats probably most of the story in a nutshell

but there may have been more to it than that

like i think tx may have wanted this land back

or there was talk of attaching it to some other adjacent state
etc

but i cant recall the particulars

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:

> The plantation owner in question was one John Hardeman Walker of

Little Prairie

> (now Caruthersville). For the whole story, see
> www.dnr.state.mo.us/magazine/1999-00_wint/one-last-word.htm .
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "hilversum96" <hilversum96@y...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 9:18 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: caruthersville mo
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> > Missouri was admitted to the Union as part of the Compromise of

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> > which established its southern boundary, and the extension of

that

> > boundary, as the line between slave and free states. Someone who
> > owned enough land to influence the drawing of Missouri's

boundaries

> > probably owned slaves as well. Maybe he was gambling that MO

would

> > stay in the Union if slave states ever did secede.
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