Rising tide : the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America.

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1997Description: 524 p. : 8 pages of plates, mapISBN:

0684810468 (hc)

DDC classification:

977.03 21

Subject: Rising tide begins in the nineteenth century, when the first serious attempts to control the river began. In 1927, the Mississippi River swept across an area roughly equal in size to Massachusetts, Conneticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont combined, leaving water as deep as thirty feet on the land stretching from Illinois and Missouri south to the Gulf of Mexico. Close to a million people - in a nation of 120 million - were forced out of their homes. Some estimates place the death toll in the thousands. The Red Cross fed nearly 700,000 refugees for months

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-496) and index

Rising tide begins in the nineteenth century, when the first serious attempts to control the river began. In 1927, the Mississippi River swept across an area roughly equal in size to Massachusetts, Conneticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont combined, leaving water as deep as thirty feet on the land stretching from Illinois and Missouri south to the Gulf of Mexico. Close to a million people - in a nation of 120 million - were forced out of their homes. Some estimates place the death toll in the thousands. The Red Cross fed nearly 700,000 refugees for months

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