American Confluence

<p>In the heart of North America the Missouri Ohio and Mississippi rivers come together uniting waters from west north and east on a journey to the south. This is the region that Stephen Aron calls the American Confluence. Aron's innovative book examines the history of that region--a home to the Osage a colony exploited by the French a new frontier explored by Lewis and Clark--and focuses on the region's transition from a place of overlapping borderlands to one of oppositional border states. <i>American Confluence</i> is a lively account that will delight both the amateur and professional historian.</p>