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Paperback / softback. New. Deep River uncovers the layers of history - both personal and regional - that have accumulated on a river-bottom farm in west-central Missouri. This land was part of a late frontier, passed over, then developed through the middle of the last century as the author's father and uncle cleared a portion of it and established their farm. Hamilton traces the generations of Native Americans, frontiersmen, settlers, and farmers who lived on and alongside the bottomland over the past two centuries. It was a region fought over by Union militia and Confederate bushwhackers, as well as by their respective armies; an area that invited speculation and the establishment of several small towns, both before and after the Civil War; land on which the Missouri Indians made their long last stand, less as a military force than as a settlement and civilization; land that attracted French explorers, the first Europeans to encounter the Missouris and their relatives, the Ioways, Otoes, and…
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Deep River: A Memoir of a Missouri Farm Volume 1 Paperback - 2014
by David Hamilton
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- Title Deep River: A Memoir of a Missouri Farm Volume 1
- Author David Hamilton
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 184
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Missouri Press
- Date 2014
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780826220356 / 0826220355
- Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 8.97 x 6.13 x 0.55 in (22.78 x 15.57 x 1.40 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Midwest
- Library of Congress subjects Missouri, Farm life - Missouri
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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