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The Role of the Church in Trans-Missouri

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Don W. Holter
Don W. Holter
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Manila, P. I.
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With the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 the region we have chosen to call trans-Missouri became a potential American frontier. Settlement began in Missouri with the opening of the nineteenth century, but it was not until after 1850 that the remainder of the region was thrown open to allow the restless flood of western-moving people to pour into Kansas, Nebraska, and Dakota. Protestantism came into the new region as a part of this vast conquest.

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Research Article
Information
Church History , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , June 1935 , pp. 134 - 146
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Church History 1935

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