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.
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.
This is the region that Stephen Aron calls the American Confluence.
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