page_title: Iconography of St. Louis
section_title: River City
hierarchical_section_title: Iconography of St. Louis / River City
caption_attribution_description: English: Steamboat "Tom Sawyer" in St. Louis (Missouri) Deutsch: Raddampfer "Tom Sawyer" in St. Lous (Missouri, USA)
context_page_description: The Iconography of St. Louis, Missouri is strongly informed by the city's French and German heritages, physical features, and place in American history.
context_section_description: St. Louis is at the confluence of the Illinois, Missouri, and Mississippi rivers. The city was founded by Pierre Laclede as a fur trading post because he believed the location had great potential in shipping.
  St. Louis has long been known for its barge traffic and steamboats. The writer Mark Twain is an icon of St. Louis in his own right, and wrote prolifically about the steamboats along the river.
  The Missouri-Mississippi confluence has been appropriated for many uses over time. The local chapter of the Green Party, the Gateway Green Alliance, regularly publishes a periodically called The Confluence. Lindenwood University's department of History has an academic journal also called The Confluence. The term is a very popular reference for local politicians to make when speaking of great ideas intersecting. It is tied to the city's identity through the rivers on the city flag and great seasonal floods.
caption: Tom Sawyer on the Mississippi
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