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Canada and the United States

Robert Kelley Schneiders. Unruly River: Two Centuries of Change Along the Missouri. (Development of Western Resources.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 1999. Pp. xi, 314. $35.00.

Robert Kelley Schneiders's book joins a growing and important body of literature that explores the historical relationship between people and rivers. The Missouri River itself has been the object of numerous book-length treatments over the course of the twentieth century, many of which are noted in this volume's introduction. (Some readers will wonder, however, why Henry Hart's The Dark Missouri [1957] does not appear in the author's bibliographical overview.) Schneiders concentrates on the activities of local and regional groups in promoting navigational improvements on the lower end of the Missouri River Valley, from Sioux City, Iowa, to St. Louis Missouri. He does, however, put the navigation story on the lower river in a larger context by juxtaposing the role and influence of white and Native American interests and by factoring in mainstem dams constructed during the Depression and after World War II in the Dakotas and Montana. These dams generate hydroelectric power, attempt to regulate the depth of the navigation channel and the volume of flood waters in the lower river, and contribute to the fundamental restructuring of the Missouri River. . . .

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