Such a splendid jacket blurb

Katherine Fischer, author of Dreaming the Mississippi, has written this blurb for What the River Carries.

Lisa Knopp has the eyes of an archeologist and the soul of a great blue heron as she renders this intimate portrayal of three national treasures—the Mississippi, Platte, and Missouri rivers.  Here we visit places as exotic as Little Egypt yet as familiar as streams connecting our own backyards to these great waterways. Knopp asks hard questions about human interaction—and interference—with these watery corridors which are largely responsible for American expansion.  Journeying through these pages, we also find tales of the shell button industry, Indian burial mounds,  Mormon settlement, catastrophic flooding, barge commerce, and every day lives of people who work and play along the shores. What this book carries?  Majesty.  Knowledge.  Inspiration.