Tag: missouri river
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When 500 Steamboats a Year Tied Up at Rocheport’s Wharf
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Stand on the Rocheport riverfront today and the Missouri rolls quietly past — a trail town of 208 residents, bed-and-breakfasts, and cyclists stopping for coffee. A century and a half ago, this same bend in…
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Old Franklin: The River Town the Missouri Swallowed
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Just across the water from Rocheport, where the Missouri bends north toward Boonville, there is nothing but a grassy bank and a wayside marker beside the highway. That is all that remains of a town…
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George Caleb Bingham: The Boonslick’s Own Painter of River Life
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When the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York acquired a canvas called Fur Traders Descending the Missouri in 1933, curators were rediscovering a painter the art world had largely set aside since his death…