Missouri, United States (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"…though the complexion is rather lighter than that of the Indians of the Missouri, and the frontier of the United States: the mouth is wide and the lips thick…"

"An American writer professes to have discovered in Missouri the fossil remains of a bogged mastodon, which had been killed precisely in this way by human contemporaries. (See Lubbock, Preh. Times, 2d ed. 279.)"

"she had spent her teens and her twenties shedding herself of certain memories forged in a very ordinary Missouri street lined with shady sugar maple trees, where the leaves turned in October and it snowed a few days every winter."

"the river town of her Missouri youth"

"A California equivalent to the Missouri grasslands, to the places where her homesteader ancestors stood on the blank slate of the land."

"He would launch a search for his wife and children, who had likely left for Missouri to spend a week, or perhaps a month or two in recreation and exile from their abusive paterfamilias..."

"… and for an instant that seal was as disturbing as those dusty old icons of Saint Patrick in her Missouri home."

"but most were dispatched far away to states whose names we could not wrap our tongues around: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, South Carolina, and so on."