American Confluence

The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State

By: Stephen Aron

Narrated by: Randy Whitlow

In the heart of North America, the Missouri, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers come together, uniting waters from west, north, and east on a journey to the south. This is the region that Stephen Aron calls the American Confluence. Aron's innovative book examines the history of that region - a home to the Osage, a colony exploited by the French, a new frontier explored by Lewis and Clark - and focuses on the region's transition from a place of overlapping borderlands to one of oppositional border states. American Confluence is a lively account that will delight both the amateur and professional historian.

©2006 Stephen Aron (P)2016 Redwood Audiobooks

Critic reviews

"Recommended." ( Choice)

"This is western history at its best." ( Western Historical Quarterly)

"A fascinating and useful contribution to both Atlantic world and North American West scholarship." ( H-Atlantic)

Excellent.

Informative as a general overview for the non-historian, but including enough detail to support the author's opinions.