The Missouri, America's Longest River

The Missouri runs from the Rockies to its meeting with the Mississippi, and these thirty-two essays follow it through nearly every way people have known it. They are arranged in seven parts: the peoples and regions along its banks, the explorers who travelled it, its place in literature and art, the towns and landmarks on its shores, the dams and engineering that reshaped it, its natural life, and the politics that have always surrounded it.

Gathered by Jon K Lauck and published by the Center for Western Studies, it suits anyone drawn to the American West, environmental history or the long story of a single great river.