Unruly River: Two Centuries of Change Along the Missouri

by Robert Kelley Schneiders

Book Overview

Over the course of two centuries, Americans have tried to tame the Missouri River. First explored by Lewis and Clark, this once-free-flowing river has in modern times been dammed, dredged, and channelized until it now barely resembles its former self. Yet, the Missouri remains beyond complete human control.

Writing in a new tradition of environmental history, Robert Kelley Schneiders takes a long historical view to reconstruct the Missouri...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700611886
• ISBN13: 9780700611881
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"