River of Promise, River of Peril: The Politics of Managing the Missouri River.

Environmental Law | March 22, 1995 | Copyright

John E. Thorson, Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. 1994. 282 pp. $29.95 Clothbound.

John E. Thorson, using River of Promise, River of Peril, takes the reader on a fact-filled journey through the history of the Missouri River basin. This work provides a number-intensive look at how and why the Missouri River basin became one of the most significantly altered drainage systems in the United States. Beginning with the creation of the Missouri River basin to the present basin management practices the author provides the ...

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