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100 1 Morris, Christopher|q(Christopher Charles)
245 14 The Big Muddy :|ban environmental history of the
Mississippi and its peoples, from Hernando de Soto to
Hurricane Katrina /|cChristopher Morris.
260 New York :|bOxford University Press,|cc2012.
300 xii, 300 p. :|bill., maps ;|c25 cm.
505 0 Valley of mud -- Knee Deep in water and snakes -- Rice --
The rise of New Orleans and the fall of Natchez --
Consolidation, transformation, conservation -- King Cotton
meets Big Muddy -- The Cotton kingdom's edges made and
Unmade -- Engineering the river of empire -- Drought,
disease, and other symptoms of a pathological landscape --
Cotton, chemicals, catfish, crawfish -- Nature's return :
hurricane Katrina and the future of the Big Muddy.
650 0 Stream ecology|zMississippi River|xHistory.
650 0 Human ecology|zMississippi River|xHistory.
651 0 Mississippi River|xEnvironmental conditions.
651 0 Mississippi River Valley|xEnvironmental conditions.
651 0 Mississippi River|xHistory.
651 0 Mississippi River Valley|xHistory.
