Missouri River
— — the long brown road the country built itself along.
Not only on a wall.
“The longest river in the country, running across the state of Missouri from Kansas City to its mouth at St. Louis. The Lewis and Clark expedition rowed upstream against it in 1804, two years before they reached the Pacific. Cottonwoods on the bluffs, working barges in the channel, river towns set back from the floodplain. The water carries enough Great Plains silt to colour the lower Mississippi for a hundred miles.
Missouri River, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
The Missouri River is the longest river in the United States, running roughly 2,341 miles (3,767 kilometres) from its headwaters at Three Forks, Montana, to its confluence with the Mississippi just north of St. Louis. In the state of Missouri, the river crosses from Kansas City in the west to St. Louis in the east, a stretch of about 380 miles. It drains parts of ten US states and two Canadian provinces, a basin of more than 500,000 square miles across the northern Great Plains.
The Missouri carries one of the heaviest silt loads of any major American river, earning it the historic nickname the Big Muddy. A series of six main-stem dams built between 1937 and 1963, Fort Peck, Garrison, Oahe, Big Bend, Fort Randall, and Gavins Point, manage flow for navigation, flood control, and hydropower. Below Gavins Point in South Dakota, the river runs unimpounded for more than 800 miles to the Mississippi, much of that final stretch across the state of Missouri.
The Katy Trail follows the river's south bank for 240 miles, the longest rail-to-trail conversion in the United States, running from Clinton through Jefferson City to Machens. Lewis and Clark State Historic Site sits at the western edge of the state. The river towns of Hermann, Washington, and St. Charles preserve nineteenth-century brick streets a block from the levee. Spring and autumn are the gentler seasons. Summer brings heat and haze on the bluffs, and the cottonwoods turn yellow in late October.