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Moving the Blog to LENS & PEN PRESS

We’re consolidating our blogs into one platform on Lens & Pen Press (the parent platform if you will) where we will continue to discuss our books–the Beautiful and Enduring Ozarks, the James Fork of the White (coming 2017), Mystery of … Continue reading

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Challenges managing “population of roving paddlefish”

Josh Rouse writes a detailed examination of the status of #paddlefish reproduction and management in #Kansas, #Oklahoma, and #Missouri. The #Marais_des_Cygnes River in Kansas is the upper reaches of the #Osage_River of Missouri (see Damming the Osage for the story … Continue reading

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OSAGE RIVER WATER: Original music video of Capps family history along the Osage River

Jimmy Capps posted on Facebook this lyrical music video account of generations of  his family and their life along the Osage River  since the early 1800s. Acoustic guitar and a haunting harmonica provide a simple but appropriate accompaniment to his … Continue reading

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CORRECTION: Osage Chief Red Eagle’s Wife and Daughter

When we published this photograph of Osage Chief Red Eagle’s Wife and Daughter we speculated that the Chief referred to was Paul Red Eagle. Recently Michael Snyder, author of a soon-to-be-released biography of John Joseph Mathews set us straight. Mathews’ … Continue reading

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RIVERBED SONG by Patrick Mereithi – A fortuitous meeting on Panther Creek

Recently we finished researching the proposed and controversial Army Corps of Engineers County Line Dam for our upcoming book on the James River. This 1970s dam would have created a 14,000 acre multipurpose reservoir on the James, ten miles east … Continue reading

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Water Tower at Ha Ha Tonka – Vintage Image

Tower Ha Ha Tonka, Mo. “8 miles of L.C.” (probably Linn Creek) By G. A. Moulder, Linn Creek, Mo. Unsent. Stone Water Tower, 80 feet high, at Robert M. Snyder’s castle retreat above the Osage River.  Water was pumped from … Continue reading

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Fishing Camp – ARNHOLD’S MILL on Niangua River

Fishing Camp, Arnolds (sic) Mill, Mo. No. 1176 Arnhold’s Mill was a commercial mill site certainly, but also an early fishing camp/resort on the Niangua River in Camden County not far from Ha Ha Tonka’s springs. In 1896, J. W. … Continue reading

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Webster Bluff – HA HA TONKA

Webster bluff – Hahatonka Jas. Bruin. Linn Creek. Mo. Unsent. The caption on this vintage image seems to indicate that at one time Webster Bluff may have been part of  large holdings of the Snyder family, known as Ha Ha … Continue reading

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Another Flood in Linn Creek circa 1920

High Water Linn Creek Mo. Real Photo Postcard by J. W. Farmer, Linn Creek, Mo. probably around 1920. Unsent. The Osage could play havoc with your plans. Flooding was a regular event in Linn Creek but it didn’t seem to … Continue reading

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Arnhold Mill Dam – NIANGUA RIVER

Arnhold Mill Dam Real photo postcard Note the folks in the canoe upstream from this icy dam. George and Dorotha Arnhold bought Cleman Mill on the Niangua River in Camden County in 1878. Its scenic location, abundant game, good fishing … Continue reading

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