Unruly River: Two Centuries of Change Along the Missouri (Development of Western Resources)

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Writing in a new tradition of environmental history the author takes a long historical view to reconstruct the Missouri Valley environment before Euro-American settlement. He tells how the mighty Missouri has been transformed from a shallow meandering stream to an engineered waterway with over a dozen dams thousands of stone pile dikes and seemingly endless miles of rock bank line and he examines how the river has reacted to the disruption of its original hydrolic and ecological processes. Illustrated with 57 b&w photographs and 17 maps. Annotation c. by Book News Inc. Portland Or.