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Rethinking the Osage River book

Posted on December 3, 2011 by admin

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 →

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Schell City Truss Bridge on the Osage River

Posted on November 18, 2011 by admin

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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The Osage River: research trip to Heritage Days in Warsaw, Missouri.

Posted on February 24, 2011 by admin

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

Posted on November 29, 2010 by admin

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 →

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