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• Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, brought Hannibal into the nation’s conscious- ness with his tales of Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and life on the Mississippi River. • The Santa Fe Trail, extending to New Mexico, helped give rise to Missouri’s biggest city, Kansas City. The Westport-area leg of the trail was connected with the riverbank Town of Kansas after the latter was founded in 1838. • Manufacturing is the biggest goods-producing component of the Missouri economy, accounting for 18 percent of private-sector employment. Services constituted the remaining 82 percent. • Roughly 95,000 farms cover 27.5 million of the state’s 44.2 million acres. Soybeans ($3.97 billion) and corn ($3.47 bil) dominate the production-dollar volume for all crops. • The state is home to 1.95 million beef cattle, but poultry is a very big deal: 318.3 million chickens are raised each year, along with 17 million turkeys. • The Show-Me State had a GDP of $390 billion in 2022.

• The state has no shortage of contributions to the big screen: Actors Kevin Kline, Kathleen Turner, John Goodman, Jon Hamm, Don Johnson, Dick Van Dyke, and Chris Cooper all got their start here. And from the Golden Age of Hollywood, Jean Harlow and Ginger Rogers. • Missouri plays a key role in the national defense posture, as home to B-2 Stealth bombers at Whiteman Air Force Base near Sedalia and the Army’s Fort Leonard Wood near the Ozarks. In St. Louis, Boeing’s defense unit produces F/A-18 and F-15 fighter jets, as well as autonomous vehicles and space/missile systems.

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