The Mississippi Valley Flood Disaster of 1937
Author: American National Red Cross
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Published: 1938
Total Pages: 252
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Author: American National Red Cross
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Published: 1938
Total Pages: 252
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Welky
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011-08-19
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 0226887189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the early days of 1937, the Ohio River, swollen by heavy winter rains, began rising. And rising. And rising. By the time the waters crested, the Ohio and Mississippi had climbed to record heights. Nearly four hundred people had died, while a million more had run from their homes. The deluge caused more than half a billion dollars of damage at a time when the Great Depression still battered the nation. Timed to coincide with the flood's seventy-fifth anniversary, The Thousand-Year Flood is the first comprehensive history of one of the most destructive disasters in American history. David Welky first shows how decades of settlement put Ohio valley farms and towns at risk and how politicians and planners repeatedly ignored the dangers. Then he tells the gripping story of the river's inexorable rise: residents fled to refugee camps and higher ground, towns imposed martial law, prisoners rioted, Red Cross nurses endured terrifying conditions, and FDR dispatched thousands of relief workers. In a landscape fraught with dangers—from unmoored gas tanks that became floating bombs to powerful currents of filthy floodwaters that swept away whole towns—people hastily raised sandbag barricades, piled into overloaded rowboats, and marveled at water that stretched as far as the eye could see. In the flood's aftermath, Welky explains, New Deal reformers, utopian dreamers, and hard-pressed locals restructured not only the flood-stricken valleys, but also the nation's relationship with its waterways, changes that continue to affect life along the rivers to this day. A striking narrative of danger and adventure—and the mix of heroism and generosity, greed and pettiness that always accompany disaster—The Thousand-Year Flood breathes new life into a fascinating yet little-remembered American story.
Author: American National Red Cross
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Published: 1938
Total Pages: 294
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Pete Daniel
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 1977-01-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781557284013
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe spring and summer of 1927, the Mississippi River and its tributaries flooded from Cairo, Illinois, to New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Gulf of Mexico, tearing through seven states, sometimes spreading out to nearly one hundred miles across. Pete Daniel's Deep'n as It Come, available again in a new format, chronicles the worst flood in the history of the South and re-creates, with extraordinary immediacy, the Mississippi River's devastating assault on property and lives. Daniel weaves his narrative with newspaper and firsthand accounts, interviews with survivors, official reports, and over 140 contemporary photographs. The story of the common refugee who suffered most from the effects of the flood emerges alongside the details of the massive rescue and relief operation - one of the largest ever mounted in the United States. The title, Deep'n as It Come, is a phrase from Cora Lee Campbell's earthy description of the approaching water, which, Daniel writes, "moved at a pace of some fourteen miles per day," and, in its movement and sound, "had the eeriness of a full eclipse of the sun, unsettling, chilling." "The contradictions of sorrow and humor,... death and salvation, despair and hope, calm and panic - all reveal the human dimension" in this compassionate and unforgettable portrait of common people confronting a great natural disaster.
Author: John M. Barry
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 554
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America.
Author: Patrick W. O'Daniel
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 252
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: American National Red Cross
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Published: 1929
Total Pages: 192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Patrick O'Daniel
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Published: 2013-02-05
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781540233011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Mississippi River Commission
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Published: 1937
Total Pages: 92
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Published: 1901
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKText, January 5, 1937. Description for plans for flood control as a result of the Flood Control Act of May 15, 1928 (after the Louisiana flood of 1927).