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Abbreviations |
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Acknowledgments |
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3 | (8) |
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Introducing Old Man River |
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11 | (16) |
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Part 1. The River Primeval |
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Majestic River Bluffs and Beautiful Valleys |
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27 | (13) |
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Glaciers: Sculptors of the Upper Mississippi River Basin |
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40 | (11) |
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The Upper Mississippi River: Child of the Pleistocene |
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51 | (20) |
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The Land Missed by the Glaciers |
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71 | (26) |
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97 | (4) |
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The Mississippi's Prehistoric Native Americans: Hunters, Gatherers, Farmers, and City Planners |
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101 | (14) |
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Part 2. Exploration and Early Exploitation |
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The Quest for Furs and a Northwest Passage: Changing Ownership of the Mississippi River Basin, 1673--1803 |
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115 | (12) |
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Prairie, Savanna, and the Big Woods: The Riverine Landscape at the Time of Exploration and Settlement by Americans and Europeans |
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127 | (13) |
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Early Exploitation of Natural Resources |
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140 | (23) |
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Steamboats 'Round the Bend |
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163 | (36) |
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``Improving'' the River, 1878--1930 |
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199 | (16) |
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Mission Impossible: The Nine-Foot Channel Project |
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215 | (15) |
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230 | (6) |
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Diesel-Driven Towboats and Steel Barges: A Rebirth of Commercial River Transportation |
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236 | (11) |
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Part 4. Ecological Relationships |
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The Corps Giveth, the Corps Taketh Away: Long-Term Impacts of the Nine-Foot Channel and Related Projects |
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247 | (8) |
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Vital Strands in the River's Web of Life |
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255 | (33) |
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``Mayflies! What the Hell Good Are They?'' |
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288 | (13) |
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Flooding: ``The River Is a Strong Brown God---Sullen, Untamed and Intractable'' |
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301 | (16) |
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Pollution: Has a Defiled River Been Reborn? |
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317 | (18) |
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Part 5. The River Today and Tomorrow |
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335 | (27) |
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Can This Be the Same River? St. Louis to the Mouth of the Ohio and Beyond |
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362 | (6) |
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Epilogue: The River Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow |
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368 | (31) |
Bibliography |
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399 | (18) |
Index |
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