American Confluence : The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State

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.