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OSAGE CHIEF BACON RIND
Real photo postcard, 1920s Wah-she-hah was called Bacon Rind, but the real translation of his Osage name was Star-That-Travels. He was born in Kansas a decade before the Osage tribe bought their reservation in northeast Oklahoma. He was a superb … Continue reading
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Tagged Osage Nation, Osage oil, Osage reservation, Osage Tribe
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DEATH OF THE SCHELL CITY BRIDGE
Just north and west of Schell City, Missouri, down the old “River Road” are the ruins of an iron truss bridge that for a hundred years spanned the Osage River, connecting Schell City and Rockville. It’s not far from where … Continue reading
EXPOSED! Lock & Dam #1 on Osage River
This summer’s drought has drastically lowered water levels on major waterways throughout the Midwest. The Corps of Engineers first major water control project on the Osage – built around the turn of the last century to facilitate steamboat travel – … Continue reading
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OSCEOLA DAM
Real photo postcard, postmarked May 22, 1951 In the late 1920s, Ozark Utilities Company of Bolivar built a low hydroelectric dam at Osceola. While it did block spawning runs of fish (except during very high water), the reservoir it created, … Continue reading
Lock and Dam No. 1
Real photo postcard, 1910-1920. Businessmen along the Osage River agitated for generations for engineering improvements that would facilitate steamboat traffic on the river. Finally in the late 1800s, politicians bullied the Army Corps of Engineers into building a disastrous lock … Continue reading
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Tagged corps of engineers, dam, osage river, real photo postcard
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Rethinking the Osage River book
We are interested in things, the common denominator of which is the Osage River – for 35 + years exploring prairies, small towns, the Ozark-prairie border, doing some snake hunting in the middle part. Leland has fished the lower Osage … Continue reading
Schell City Truss Bridge on the Osage River
Rivers both provide and obstruct transportation routes. A book about a river requires attention to and consideration of the ways the river has been spanned. In Vernon County, northwest of Schell City, down a gravel, then a dirt road (aka … Continue reading
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Tagged Bates County Ditch, historic bridges, Missouri, osage river, Schell City, Vernon County
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The Osage River: research trip to Heritage Days in Warsaw, Missouri.
Research, for this writer, is almost the best part of a book project. For in our case that often means – road trip! Many trips to the Ozarks tracking Father Hogan’s horseback reconnaissance for a settlement for Famine immigrants were … Continue reading
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Osage River and a chance encounter
Recently, I was settled in a dark corner of the State Historical Society of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) focused intently on the screen of a microfilm reader, trying to decipher badly focused text of a yellowed 1933 newspaper, when a voice … Continue reading