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Moving the Blog to LENS & PEN PRESS

Posted on April 26, 2017 by admin

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”

Posted on March 19, 2017 by admin

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

Posted on February 15, 2017 by admin

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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Water Tower at Ha Ha Tonka – Vintage Image

Posted on July 26, 2016 by admin

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

Posted on July 21, 2016 by admin

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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Another Flood in Linn Creek circa 1920

Posted on July 13, 2016 by admin

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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STEAMBOAT’S COMIN’! The Ruth at Linn Creek

Posted on July 5, 2016 by admin

The Ruth in Linn Creek Mo Real photo postcard. J. W. Farmer. Linn Creek. MO. LOVE this photograph!  You can sense the excitement of a boat’s arrival in river towns:  “Steamboat’s a-comin’! Steamboat’s a-comin’!”  Everyone in Linn Creek headed to … Continue reading →

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DAM REMOVAL success on the #Hudson – time to remove #Lock & Dam No. 1

Posted on June 13, 2016 by admin

#AmericanRivers and #Riverkeepers celebrate the removal of a rusty, abandoned dam on Wynants Kill near Albany, NY. Already they see the flash of silver as herring swarm upstream to spawn. ” ‘Every dam should have an existential crisis,’ ” said … Continue reading →

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Poetic Meditations on the Osage River – Guest Post by Rod Cameron

Posted on May 23, 2016 by admin

Recently Rod Cameron, of Raytown, messaged us on Facebook after reading Damming the Osage. Rod lived along the Osage River in the 1970s. He shared with us a poem he had written as he watched Truman Dam being built. It … Continue reading →

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Old Linn Creek 1909 – before Bagnell Dam

Posted on May 19, 2016 by admin

“Linn Creek, Mo. Looking N. W. 1909” written in red ink. Real photo postcard, published by G. A. Moulder, Linn Creek, Mo. Unsent. Linn Creek, seat of Camden County, here seen nestled in its valley near the Osage, seems to … Continue reading →

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