River of Promise, River of Peril: The Politics of Managing the Missouri River

(Part of the Development of Western Resources Series)

by John E. Thorson

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Snaking 2,540 miles from Montana to the Mississippi River, the Missouri is the longest waterway in the nation. Its basin--stretching 530,000 square miles--extends broadly into ten states and twenty-five Indian reservations. For millions of years the river and its tributaries meandered untamed. But that irrevocably changed with the passage of the Pick-Sloan Plan, part of the Flood Control Act of 1944. In River of Promise, River of Peril , John Thorson...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0700606483

ISBN13:9780700606481

Release Date:December 1994

Publisher:University Press of Kansas

Length:200 Pages

Weight:1.32 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.5" x 11.7"

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