Welcome room - south wall - second view
Our director thinks he's pioneering this imaginary type of museum. These are real pioneers:
(above: Missouri statehood's 150th anniversary was commemorated with an 8-cent stamp on May 8, 1971. The vignette by Thomas Hart Benton shows a Native American offering a pipe to settlers in a camp with a wagon train cresting a ridge in the background. Bureau of Printing and Engraving - U.S. Post Office. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
And we know from our history books some pioneers bear-ly survived
(above: James Walker, Cowboys Roping a Bear, c. 1877, oil on canvas, 29.31 x 49.31 inches, Denver Art Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
That's it for the south wall. Lets now turn right again for the first view of the west
wall of the welcome room. 
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