On July 12, 1808 this large city's Missouri Gazette became the first newspaper published west of the Mississippi
The population of the city expanded slowly after the Louisiana 
Purchase, but .... newspaper west of the Mississippi, the Missouri Gazette, in St. 
Louis on July 12 ..... By the early 1830s the German population of St. Louis had 
become... [DOC] [TLE] The Current Local from Van Buren, Missouri ... - Newspapers.com [PAR] MISSOURI JOURNALISM Missouri " journalism may be dated from July 12, 1808.