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The Missouri River is one of the most dangerous rivers in the United States—and one of the most economically important. Even as prolonged drought in the Midwest has imperiled urban drinking water and agricultural water supplies, parched regions in the basin far from the river have proposed piping water from the Missouri to alleviate their own water shortages.
In an attempt to better understand the river and its place in the American imagination, Lisa G. Dill set out with four of her mother's cousins on a forty-year-old pontoon boat on a modern voyage of discovery. The hope was to sail nearly 750 river miles from Sioux City, Iowa, to St. Louis, Missouri, a goal whose success was by no means assured, given the rickety state of the family vessel. From departure—a day late, because the motor wouldn't start—until she got off the boat, Dill bears witness to the river, its flora and fauna, the efforts to control it, and its history, along with the misadventures of a crew of "relative strangers" and the boat's tenuous viability on one of the world's most powerful rivers.
In Around the Bend Dill teases out the cultural and environmental history of the Missouri and urges readers to change the way they think about America's rivers and the landscapes through which they flow.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Chapter 1: The Missouri River
Chapter 2: Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery
Chapter 3: Endangered Species of the Missouri
Chapter 4: Engineering the River
Chapter 5: Drought
Chapter 6: Flooding
Chapter 7: The Ioway Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska
Chapter 8: Invasive Species
Chapter 9: Dredging
Chapter 10: Steamboats on the Missouri
Chapter 11: Recreation
Chapter 12: Governing a River
Epilogue
Bibliography
