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STEAMBOAT LANDING @ LINN CREEK – 1911
click to enlarge This hand tinted postcard from 1911 shows one of the small steamboats of the late era of commercial river travel. Published by James Bruin, Linn Creek, Mo. While this is rather late in the history of commercial … Continue reading
DELEGATION OF OSAGE INDIANS MEET WITH PRESIDENT CALVIN COOLIDGE – 1924
(click to enlarge) Press Photo, 8 x 10, dated January 23, 1924 (by UNITED) Official caption pasted on the back of photo: RICHEST INDIANS GREET PRESIDENT. The delegation of Osage Indians, in the Capital seeking additional allowances from their government … Continue reading
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Tagged Bacon Rind, bandeau, Calvin Coolidge, Osage County, Osage headrights, Osage Indians, Osage wealth
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OLD LINN CREEK – before the ‘flood’
(click to enlarge) 8 x 10 press photo captioned “Move Entire Town to Make Room for World’s Largest Artificial Lake” (photo credit: ACME) This press photo dated March 26, 1931 shows what remained of the soon-to-be-covered-with-forty-feet-of-water town of Linn Creek, … Continue reading
Gatlin’s ROCKY COMFORT Lodge / Boat Yard on Lake of the Ozarks
We can surmise that this is a surveyor’s map of a subdivision of seventy-four lots laid out by then-owners H. O. (Orville) and Ruth Gatlin, notarized on July 6, 1937 by “George Clifford Williams, Notary Public in and for Morgan … Continue reading
A CREATIVE APPROACH TO DAM HISTORY
Pastoral and Monumental: Dam, Postcards, and the American Landscape is an original take on water resource development. Books on dams are usually politicized, often technical, and unnecessarily rhetorical. Rarely are discourses on river blockages as nuanced as Donald C. Jackson’s … Continue reading
TWO LAKES – The Artificially Shallow and the Naturally Deep
July 20, 2014: The last Sunday in Colorado, we made a round trip drive along Trail Ridge Road from Estes Park to Grand Lake. Grand Lake – elevation 8,367 feet; formed by glaciation 30,000 years ago; estimated depth, 265 feet. … Continue reading
Osceola residents were not universally in favor of Truman Dam… an Open Letter to the Corps of Engineers, 1997
Consequences (intended or not) and pernicious effects of Truman Dam and Reservoir for residents of the upper Osage River. We received a fat envelope in the mail a few weeks ago that included an “open letter to the Corps of … Continue reading
Review of THE SCARS OF PROJECT 459: The Environmental Story of Lake of the Ozarks
Pollution at Lake of the Ozarks, complicated by denial and cover-ups Naturally environmentalists are more concerned about the degradation of rivers, especially if they cut through uninhabited, scenic country, than a reservoir whose shores are lined with condos and whose … Continue reading
Chinese Paddlefish, Vanished Cousin of the American Paddlefish
As paddlefish snagging season nears its end in Missouri, we pay tribute to the its closest cousin, the Chinese paddlefish, (Psephurus gladius), which is likely now extinct. In the not-too-long-ago but far-away genre of story telling is the tale of … Continue reading