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James F. Barnett Jr.
Told against the backdrop of the Lower Mississippi River's impending diversion, the book's chapters chronicle historic floods, rising flood crests, a changing strategy for flood protection, and competing interests in…
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James F. Barnett
The most complete and detailed examination of a vanished tribe
Explores the Mississippi as a waterway of change, unnaturally confined by ever-larger levees and control structures. Since 1973, the US Army Corps of Engineers Control Complex at Old River has…
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The full story of the state’s once thriving and diverse American Indian population
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, over twenty different American Indian tribal groups inhabited present-day Mississippi. Today, it is home to only one tribe, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw…