![]() ![]() ![]() Deep River is composed of four sections, each exploring aspects of the farm and its neighborhood. Most recently it was briefly and intensively receptive to farming before being restored in large part as state-managed wetlands. It is land with a long history of occupation and use, extending millennia before the Missouris. It was a region fought over by Union militia and Confederate bushwhackers, as well as by their respective armies an area that invited speculation and the establishment of several small towns, both before and after the Civil War land on which the Missouri Indians made their long last stand, less as a military force than as a settlement and civilization land that attracted French explorers, the first Europeans to encounter the Missouris and their relatives, the Ioways, Otoes, and Osage, a century before Lewis and Clark. Hamilton traces the generations of Native Americans, frontiersmen, settlers, and farmers who lived on and alongside the bottomland over the past two centuries. ![]() This land was part of a late frontier, passed over, then developed through the middle of the last century as the author's father and uncle cleared a portion of it and established their farm. Deep River uncovers the layers of history-both personal and regional-that have accumulated on a river-bottom farm in west-central Missouri. ![]()
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