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Pike County

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Pike County

County of northeastern Missouri, USA, bounded to the east by the Mississippi River; area 1,743 sq km/673 sq mi; population (1990) 16,000. Its seat is Bowling Green. Other towns are Louisiana and Clarksville, both on the Mississippi. The region is mainly agricultural, with some light industry. The county is said to be the source of the slang term ‘piker’ (a tramp or trickster), and was the home of the heroine of the frontier folk ballad ‘Sweet Betsy from Pike’. It was named for Zebulon Pike, who explored Pikes Peak.

Bowling Green; population (1990) 3,000
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I remember that the other day, when we passed the shanty of that Pike County family on the slope, there were three women at the door, and one of them said something that made poor little Kearney turn white and pink alternately, and dance with suppressed rage.
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My folks was living in Pike County, in Missouri, where I was born, and they all died off but me and pa and my brother Ike.
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