This is where most roads to the west got their start. Although today they look more like interstate highways. As the guardians of the Gateway to the West, we Missouri folks have had a chance to open doors, suggest the best routes and sell folks what they need to get to where they're going. We've had a history of showing people how to do things better and also of wanting to be convinced our way isn't already the best. Over the past several hundred years, the muddy Missouri River has carried a lot of the western landscape through here on its way to the Gulf of Mexico.
Worms can turn waste to soil.
Over the past hundred years, Missouri has seen a lot of garbage pile up. Wagon trains lightened up before heading out across the plains. Riverboats dumped trash as well as passengers. The early settlers could probably build a new cabin easier than hauling away the trash from the back yard. Even today you can still find places where an old, empty mobile home sits surrounded by trash.