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What the river carries : encounters with the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte / Lisa Knopp.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knopp, Lisa, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rivers--History.
- Rivers.
- Mississippi River--Description and travel.
- Mississippi River.
- Mississippi River Valley--Description and travel.
- Mississippi River Valley.
- Missouri River Valley--Description and travel.
- Missouri River Valley.
- Platte River (Neb.)--Description and travel.
- Platte River (Neb.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, MO : University Of Missouri Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Interwoven essays on the physical and cultural geography of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte Rivers.
- Contents:
- The Mississippi : Catfish Bend
- Painting the river
- Mississippi harvest
- Nauvoo, the beautiful place
- Mound builders
- What the river carries
- The Missouri : point of departure
- Little Dixie
- The overlook
- Missouri River music
- The taking
- Restorations
- The Platte : the middle ground
- No other river
- Nine-mile prairie
- Pawnee homecoming
- Gone to the beets
- Meanderings.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-230).
- ISBN:
- 9780826272768
- 0826272762
- OCLC:
- 868217797
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