American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State wh auden Fleeing the threats of their

Fleeing the threats of their western mining town

an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland

about illness…about marriage and children and memory…about the shallowness of sanity

A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man--set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s

With humanity's future on this planet seeming more insecure by the day

American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State wh auden Fleeing the threats of theirAuthor Contributor(s): Aron, Stephen Publisher: Indiana University Press Date: 09 07 2009 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW