American confluence: the Missouri frontier from borderland to border state
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Main Author: Aron, Stephen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington Indiana University Press c2006
Series:History of the trans-Appalachian frontier
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. Openings; 2. Traditions; 3. Newcomers; 4. Transfers; 5. Quakes; 6. Closings; Epilogue; Notes; Index
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. Amer
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 301 p.)
ISBN:0253111439
9780253111432

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