We spend time with Randy Dixon, from the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, to learn more about the creation of a navigation system that changed how the Arkansas River flows through Arkansas and Oklahoma using archives from the Pryor Center to tell the story.
The Creation of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System
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Courtesy
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers