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Book Review


American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State. By Stephen Aron. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. xiv, 301 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-34691-6.)
Stephen Aron's study of the area that lies along the Mississippi River between the mouths of the Missouri and Ohio rivers (generally from Ste. Genevieve north to St. Louis) is an intriguing and important examination of the early history of the area that became Missouri, or at least significant parts of it, and the peoples who made its history up to the 1830s. He also follows the "confluence" westward, and an epilogue brings the story to the eve of the Civil War. . . .
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