Citations:Mound City

(the) Mound City: (informal) St. Louis, Missouri

 * 1982, Terry C. Johnston, Carry the Wind, 1986 Random House reprint, ISBN 055325572X, page 31:
 * Josiah would stir one of those rare characters into conversation from time to time, but mostly they bought what was needed, then went on their way, with better things to do, with better places to be than in St. Louis, spending their few fleeting moments jawing with some young store clerk. As he stopped, he looked around him at the streets of the Mound City, his place of birth. Setting out up Third Street, the LaRue [sic] des Granges of bygone St. Louis days,.
 * 1988, Jonathan Franzen, The Twenty-Seventh City, 2001 revised edition, ISBN 0312420145, page 29:
 * Already, with the help of the mayor and a corrupt alderman, she was designing changes in the city's tax laws, changes which the city could not afford to enact unless some of the county's wealth and population had been lured east again.  What she would do  when she had cured the city's ills and  become Madam of the Mound City, she wouldn't say.