Popular tourist area, located about 50 miles south of Springfield, MO

Home of Southeast Missouri State University -- the largest city in southeast Missouri

Site of the University of Missouri main campus

Winston Churchill delivered his 'Iron Curtain' speech at Westminster College in this city

Boyhood home of Mark Twain

The center of the 'Missouri Rhineland'

Point of departure of the California, Oregon and Santa Fe Trails -- and home of the Harry Truman Library

Missouri's capital

The tornado that hit it on May 22, 2011 killed 161 people

Missouri's most populous city

Home of the Laura Ingalls Wilder-Rose Wilder Lane Home and Museum

The 'Queen City of the Ozarks'

Suburb of St. Louis -- Missouri's first state capital

Where the Pony Express began and Jesse James died

Site of the Gateway Arch