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Author Aron, Stephen.

Title American confluence : the Missouri frontier from borderland to border state / Stephen Aron
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 301 pages) : illustrations
Series A history of the trans-Appalachian frontier
History of the trans-Appalachian frontier.
Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. Openings; 2. Traditions; 3. Newcomers; 4. Transfers; 5. Quakes; 6. Closings; Epilogue; Notes; Index
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. Amer
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- Missouri
Frontier and pioneer life -- Missouri River Region
Indians of North America -- Missouri River Region
HISTORY -- State & Local.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
Frontier and pioneer life
Indians of North America
SUBJECT Missouri -- History -- 18th century
Missouri -- History -- 19th century
Missouri River Region -- History -- 18th century
Missouri River Region -- History -- 19th century
Subject Missouri
Missouri River Region
United States, Missouri -- History.
Frontier
Missouri-Gebiet
Missouri Staat
Indianer.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005018951
ISBN 0253111439
9780253111432
1282071572
9781282071575
9786612071577
6612071575