American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State.0253346916 American confluence confluence /con·flu·ence/ (kon´floo-ins) 1. a running together; a meeting of streams.con´fluent 2. in embryology, the flowing of cells, a component process of gastrulation. ; the Missouri frontier from borderland bor·der·land n. 1. a. Land located on or near a frontier. b. The fringe: a shadowy figure who lived on the borderland of the drug scene. 2. to border state. Aron, Stephen. Indiana University Indiana University, main campus at Bloomington; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1820 as a seminary, opened 1824. It became a college in 1828 and a university in 1838. The medical center (run jointly with Purdue Univ. Pr. 2006 301 pages $29.95 Hardcover A history of the trans-Appalachian frontier F466 Where rivers meet, people meet. The rivers here are the Missouri, the Ohio and the Mississippi, and the people include the Osage Nation The Osage Nation is a Native American tribe in the United States, which is mainly based in Osage County, Oklahoma, but can still be found throughout America. The Osage call themselves Ni-U-Kon-Ska, and were originally called Wazházhe , French frontier entrepreneurs, the Corps of Discovery led by Lewis and Clark and a flood of settlers of various nationalities and expectations called by the riches of the rivers. Aron (history, U. of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. ) describes how a complex web of colonial, commercial and political compromises and collaborations built up among the peoples of the rivers of the Missouri frontier in the latter eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He traces how the confluence of cultures and ideas on this and other frontiers informed and reflected the roiling debates about becoming a nation. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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