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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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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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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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Hotel Ha Ha Tonka

Real photo postcard. Written in red ink, “Hotel Ha Ha tonk a MO”. Published by Jas. Bruin Linn Creek, MO. Unsent. There’s a long and largely unsuccessful history of trying to develop Ha Ha Tonka as a tourist attraction. We’re … Continue reading

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Trout Glen at Ha Ha Tonka

Entitled “Trout Glen” and written in red ink “Ha ha ton ka,”  this real photo postcard was published by Jas. Bruin, Linn Creek, MO. Unsent. Before Bagnell Dam, this spring outlet fed into the Niangua River. Springs throughout the Ozarks … Continue reading

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Old Linn Creek – flooded by the Osage River

View of Linn Creek, Mo., written in white ink. Published by G. A. Moulder, Linn Creek, Mo. This appears to show high water on the Osage River and shows Linn Creek flooded to varying degrees. Linn Creek was built at … Continue reading

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Cliff over Counterfeiters’ Cave at Ha Ha Tonka

The wild scenery at Ha Ha Tonka was appreciated by our ancestors. The walls of the collapsed cavern defied development so they look pretty much today like they did a hundred years ago. The story is (and it’s on most … Continue reading

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FLOODING ON THE OSAGE – July 2015

Flooding along the Osage River has made news this week. #LakeoftheOzarks filled to over capacity with flood gates roaring. The swinging bridge in this video spans Greatglaize Creek near Brumley, in Miller County. Designed by Joe Dice in the first … Continue reading

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KANSAS CITY STAR – 53 years ago today – CORPS RECOMMENDS ADDING POWER GENERATION TO KAYSINGER BLUFF DAM

Twelve years after authorization of what was then called Kaysinger Dam, and a little more than two years before the actual groundbreaking commencement of construction, Army Corps of Engineers Lt. Gen. W. K. Wilson, Jr. recommended to the Secretary of … Continue reading

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