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American confluence : the Missouri frontier from borderland to border state /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©2006.
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| Colección: | History of the trans-Appalachian frontier.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxi, 301 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0253111439 9780253111432 1282071572 9781282071575 9786612071577 6612071575 |