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The Flood Year 1927
I wanted the readers to be aware of the history That got us to 1997 John Barry a wonderful historian of this flood wrote rising tide In 1997 and he does a great job Describing the engineering history that had set up the levees only policy. I was interested in the environmental history of the Mississippi Valley You know what had been occurring since 1850 to change How flooding occurred in the valley. And then I also wanted my readers to understand the social Makeup of people who lived where the flooding was worse So essentially in the Mississippi Delta and in the states of Mississippi Louisiana Arkansas.
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