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Indian Fighting In Missouri
Forty years of frontier turmoil in central Missouri culminated in Fayette as 1500 to 2000 volunteers gathered seeking justice for a massacre of settlers by Iowa Indians. Governor Miller and General Leavenworth sent troops, while the case lingered unresolved. the 1838 petition for protection faded, and Brazil’s vast iron ore reserves were noted at the end.
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Fayette
Randolph
Chariton River
Missouri
Pompikan
Harry
William Clark
United States
John Myers
Myers
Powell Owensby
James Winn
John Miller
St. Louis
Leavenworth
Harris
Owens
Bigs Neck
Randolph County