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9780399525100

Passage of Discovery

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    9780399525100

  • ISBN10:

    0399525106

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-07-01
  • Publisher: Perigee Trade
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Summary

Renowned biologist and author Daniel B. Botkin retraces the Missouri River passage of Lewis and Clark's historic journey in the modern world by following the route and guiding readers to nearly 50 legendary sites of historical and environmental importance. Illustrations.

Author Biography

Daniel B. Botkin is the author of Our Natural History: The Lessons of Lewis and Clark and Strange Encounters: Adventures of a Renegade Naturalist, as well as numerous other books and articles. He is the President for the Center of the Study for the Environment and Professor of and speaks nationwide on scientific and environmental issues.

Table of Contents

Maps
xiii(2)
Foreword xv(4)
Stephen Ambrose
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1(6)
The Missouri River: Nature's Landscape Painter 7(6)
The Natural History of Special Locations Along the River 13(198)
1. Camp Dubois: Preparing for the Journey
13(6)
2. Cahokia: Clark Discovers an Ancient Indian Mound
19(3)
3. St. Charles: Floods, Levees, Towns, and Wetlands
22(5)
4. Columbia and the Big Muddy National Wildlife Refuge: Approaches to Meeting All the Uses of the River
27(7)
5. Arrow Rock State Park: Cottonwoods and the Resiliency of Life
34(6)
6. Pelicans and Grand Pass: The River and Migrating Birds
40(6)
7. Kansas City: Where the Kansas River Meets the Missouri--City Plans and River Pollution
46(5)
8. Weston, Missouri: Where the River Meandered Away, Leaving the Town Without a Waterfront
51(5)
9. Benedictine Bottoms: Pollution As a Problem of Landscape Design
56(4)
10. Atchison, Kansas: Commerce in Beaver
60(2)
11. Hamburg Bend: The River Farms the Prairie and the Prairie Feeds the Fish
62(6)
12. Shilling Wildlife Area: How the Platte Changes the Missouri
68(3)
13. Along the Platte River: The Great Prairie River--Once the Route West, Now Isolated from People
71(4)
14. Omaha, Nebraska: Down the River with the Army Corps of Engineers
75(8)
15. Fontenelle Forest Preserve: Killing Nature with Kindness
83(4)
16. The Allwine Prairie: Once-Vast Prairies Are Now Rare
87(5)
17. Fort Atkinson State Historical Park: The River Shapes the Floodplain, Creating Good and Poor Sites for Settlement
92(3)
18. Fort Atkinson: The Badger and Discovery of New Species
95(1)
19. Ledges State Park: Reading Ancient History in Tiny Grains of Pollen
96(3)
20. Loess Hills State Recreation Area: To Keep a Prairie, Disturb It with Fire
99(5)
21. DeSoto Bend National Wildlife Refuge: What Happens When We Stop a River's Meandering
104(7)
22. Sergeant Charles Floyd Monument: Medicine and Nature
111(6)
23. Sioux City, Iowa, Waterfront Park: Highways and Riverfronts
117(3)
24. South Sioux City and the Bluffs on Fire: Lewis and Clark Learn About the Geology of the Missouri
120(2)
25. Ponca State Park: Rocks Tell Stories and Soils Are Nature's Braille
122(4)
26. Vermillion, South Dakota, and Dixon, Nebraska: Buffalo Demise and Recovery
126(8)
27. Vermillion: On the Wild and Scenic Missouri
134(2)
28. The Niobrara River Meets the Missouri: Cedars Persist on the Bright Bluffs
136(5)
29. The Confluence of the Niobrara and Missouri Rivers: Lewis and Clark Begin to See the Animals of the West
141(3)
30. Fort Mandan Park, North Dakota: Winter on the Plains
144(7)
31. Knife River Indian Villages: Choosing a Place to Live Within Nature's Constraints and Opportunities
151(3)
32. Little Missouri National Grassland and Theodore Roosevelt National Park: Prairie Dogs, Black-Footed Ferrets, and the Shortgrass Prairie
154(7)
33. The Confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers: Wolves and the Conservation of Endangered Species
161(5)
34. Fort Peck Dam and the Milk River: How the Ice Ages Altered the Course of the Missouri River
166(4)
35. Fort Peck Dam and the Pines Recreation Area: Grizzlies and the Conservation of Endangered Species
170(6)
36. Judith Landing: How Early People May Have Affected Wildlife
176(4)
37. The Mouth of the Marias River: Which Was the Best Way West?
180(6)
38. Fort Benton, Montana: Caches, Geology, and the Location of Cities
186(3)
39. Ryan Dam: Scenery and Electricity
189(6)
40. Giant Springs and Great Falls: Huge Quantities of Fresh Water Rise and Descend As Hail and Rain
195(3)
41. Gates of the Mountains: Continents Collide and We Are Rafted Along in Their Wake
198(5)
42. Three Forks, Montana: Headwaters of the Missouri River
203(8)
Afterword 211(4)
Robert Redford
Additional Sites to Visit 215(20)
Entry Notes 235(8)
Index 243

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