Deep river : a memoir of a Missouri farm / David Hamilton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamilton, David, 1939 June 9- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Farmers--Missouri--Biography.

Farmers.

Farm life--Missouri.

Farm life.

Missouri--Biography.

Missouri.

Hamilton, David, 1939 June 9-.

Hamilton, David.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (179 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Deep River uncovers the layers of history-both personal and regional-that have accumulated on a river-bottom farm in west-central Missouri. This land was part of a late frontier, passed over, then developed through the middle of the last century as the author's father and uncle cleared a portion of it and established their farm. Hamilton traces the generations of Native Americans, frontiersmen, settlers, and farmers who lived on and alongside the bottomland over the past two centuries. It was a region fought over by Union militia and Confederate bushwhackers, as well as by their respective armies; an area that invited speculation and the establishment of several small towns, both before and after the Civil War; land on which the Missouri Indians made their long last stand, less as a military force than as a settlement and civilization; land that attracted French explorers, the first Europeans to encounter the Missouris and their relatives, the Ioways, Otoes, and Osage, a century before Lewis and Clark. It is land with a long history of occupation and use, extending millennia before the Missouris. Most recently it was briefly and intensively receptive to farming before being restored in large part as state-managed wetlands. Deep River is composed of four sections, each exploring aspects of the farm and its neighborhood. While the family story remains central to each, slavery and the Civil War in the nineteenth century and Native American history in the centuries before that become major themes as well. The resulting portrait is both personal memoir and informal history, brought up from layers of time, the compound of which forms an emblematic American story.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: In the Bottoms 5

George

Grand Pass

Sale

Underlined Passages in My Father's Walden

The Bottoms

Clearing

To Clear

Winter Onions

Springs

Hanging Mart Rider 38

Dark Cloud

Coon Hollow

Frank James

Dr. John Benson

A Man

Judge Lynch

Mart Rider

"Why, Mrs. Hamilton!"

The Hatchet

The Missouri Princess and Petit Missouri 85

One Boy

Possum

People of the Canoe

Bourgmont

Massacre

Our Discipline

Jim Duncan Wading

The Miamis

The Old Fort

IV. Mother, Father, Farm 120

The Miami Mastodon

Ice

Chicago Women

The Bridge

Mother and Her Boats

Chartreuse Sails

River Horse

Father

Farm

Deep River, a Conclusion 161

Acknowledgments 163

Bibliographical Appendix 165.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780826271679

0826271677

OCLC:

70766205