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American confluence : the Missouri frontier from borderland to border state / Stephen Aron.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aron, Stephen.
- Series:
- History of the trans-Appalachian frontier.
- A history of the trans-Appalachian frontier
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life--Missouri.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Missouri River Region.
- Indians of North America--Missouri River Region.
- Indians of North America.
- Missouri--History--18th century.
- Missouri.
- Missouri--History--19th century.
- Missouri River Region--History--18th century.
- Missouri River Region.
- Missouri River Region--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the heart of North America, the Missouri, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers come together, uniting waters from west, north, and east on a journey to the south. This is the region that Stephen Aron calls the American Confluence. Aron's innovative book examines the history of that region -- a home to the Osage, a colony exploited by the French, a new frontier explored by Lewis and Clark -- and focuses on the region's transition from a place of overlapping borderlands to one of oppositional border states. A
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. Openings; 2.Traditions; 3. Newcomers; 4.Transfers; 5.Quakes; 6. Closings; Epilogue; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-07157-2
- 9786612071577
- 0-253-11143-9
- OCLC:
- 71325298
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