I caught wind of a call for contributions to Essay Daily, an online journal and started thinking about what Missouri means to me. The result was this piece built around the river. I left out the part where I almost perished in the upper Missouri in the midst of a reporting trip, though I think I mentioned that in passing on another recent river-related piece for my KC Studio column. No matter, here it is:

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