Missouri bicentennial: State was home to last passenger pigeon in the wild

Monday, April 5, 2021 ~ Updated 8:42 AM

This is the 13th in a series of articles with Kellerman Foundation for Historic Preservation board chairman Frank Nickell, an emeritus faculty member of Southeast Missouri State University, commenting on Show Me State history on the 200th anniversary of Missouri being received as America’s 24th state in 1821.

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