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Book Review
| Opening the Ozarks: Historical Geography of Missouri's Ste. Genevieve District, 17601830. By Walter A. Schroeder. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. xxi + 551 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95.
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| Opening the Ozarks is the product of more than two decades of research and writing by Walter A. Schroeder, geographer at the University of Missouri. The combination of Schroeder's meticulous attention to detail and pleasant writing style results in a dual anomalya socio-scientific book that is easy to read and what is in effect a broad community study that, as Terry G. Jordan writes in the foreword, "has profound relevance not just for the Ozarks, but for half a continent as well" (p. xv). |
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