| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 100.3

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The River We Have Wrought A History of the Upper Missis-sippi

By John O. Afinson

(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. Pp. xxii, 365. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. $29.95)

America's inland rivers have received ample scholarly attention over the last twenty years. John O. Afinson's The River We Have Wrought adds another fine volume to that literature. It focuses on midwesterners' longstanding struggles to improve the upper Mississippi River's navigability and on the ensuing conflicts with conservationists over river management. Geographically, Afinson looks at the river between St. Louis and Minneapolis, a stretch that required substantial modifications to accommodate steam paddlewheelers and, more recently, large barge fleets. Temporally, he considers the period between 1823—the date when steamboat traffic commenced on that stretch—and 1940, when the U. S. Corps of Engineers completed the last of the locks and dams that opened a continuous nine-foot channel along the length of the upper river.

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