Emasulia

Emasulia is a recorded name for the Missouri River, whose broad, sediment-laden waters flow east to meet the Mississippi. The river crosses the plains and bends through a valley of wooded bluffs and fertile bottomlands. Its many names reflect the peoples who knew and travelled it; the name Missouri itself comes from an Illinois term for the Missouria people. Their villages stood near the mouth of the Grand River, upstream from the great river’s junction with the Mississippi.

The later city of Jefferson City lies here.