Interesting Facts about Missouri

• From the first steamboat on the Missouri River, smoke poured out of a stack made like a dragon's head to frighten the Indians.
• St. Louis is perhaps the only major city to have been founded by a 14-year-old boy--Auguste Chouteau, who undertook the task at the request of his patron, Pierre Laclede Liguest.
• The ice cream cone is said by some to have originated at the St. Louis world's fair of 1904.