American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State (History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier)

By Stephen Aron

Book Overview

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. American Confluence is a lively account that will delight both the amateur and professional historian.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253346916
• ISBN13: 9780253346919
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.4"