Arrow Rock, Missouri (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)
Referenced In
History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark / To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean
by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark"…we set out early, and reached a cliff of rocks, called the Arrow Rock, near to which is a prairie called the Prairies of Arrows, and Arrow creek…"
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner"…a precise, focused miniature in the streak of moonlight across the shoulder of Arrow Rock."
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner"He walked away from her and sat on the table, looking out the window down toward the bridge and Arrow Rock."
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner"Just below the mouth of their gulch the cliffs pinched in, and the pinnacle called Arrow Rock, into whose slot Indians were supposed to have shot arrows to appease or subdue the spirits, stood up close against one wall."
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner"They could look down into the top of the slot where the river had cut through (a potential damsite, but not so good as the Arrow Rock site below) but their first sight of the river was where it boiled out, white as a ruffled shirt front, into their pool."