Encyclopedia > Trans-Mississippi

  Article Content

Trans-Mississippi

The Trans-Mississippi was a name applied to a region of the United States in the 19th century. The Trans-Mississippi consisted of the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Texas and the Indian Territory. This term was especially used by the Confederate States of America, which had its Trans-Mississippi headquarters at Shreveport, Louisiana and Marshall, Texas. The geographical term is used today only in matters relating in the study of the American Civil War.

In 1898, a Trans-Mississippi Exposition[?] was held at Omaha, Nebraska. The exposition itself is long-forgotten, but the postage stamps of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition Issue[?] are considered some of the most beautiful stamps ever issued by the US, and a complete set of the "Trans-Miss" is highly prized. In 1998, a set of stamps using designs derived from the original issue was issued to commemorate its 100th anniversary.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Quadratic formula

... term b2 – 4ac is called the discriminant of the quadratic equation, because it discriminates between three qualitatively different cases: If the discriminant is ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 23.2 ms