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320 pages, ebook
First published September 12, 2023
“Their house was built with its face toward the Missouri, where it flowed eastward and parallel with the Mississippi for five miles until the Missouri joined it at the Columbia Bottoms. There you could see its sandy waters curling into the Mississippi for miles, in cauliflower shapes, cloud shapes. For a short space, the two massive rivers ran side by side with rich bottom land between them, most of it owned by the Chennevilles.”
“He was born and brought up here, the seven hundred acres of bottomland, of which now he knew every running stream and snye, every length of woods and the gigantic trees, the last of their kind; the beautiful plow-team horses, the floods and apples, the steamboat wrecks and the long smoky rains of Missouri.”