TY  - BOOK
AU  - Upholt,Boyce
TI  - The great river: the making and unmaking of the Mississippi 
SN  - 9780393867879
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Natural history
KW  - Mississippi River
KW  - Flood control
KW  - History
KW  - Local histories
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-312) and index; Introduction: A most magnificent spectacle -- Part I: Alluvial chronicles. Searching for a river -- Tomahawk claims -- Cosmic river -- Part II: American river. Half horse, half alligator -- The Office of River Improvement -- Dancing at the skirts of Congress -- That big green wall -- The great flood -- Part III: The unmade Mississippi. Hooked up, hard down -- Death alley -- The great unraveling -- Beautiful country -- Epilogue: The water of the future
N2  - In this landmark work of natural history, a journalist tells the epic story of the Mississippi River and the centuries of efforts to control it, which have damaged its once-vibrant ecosystems, carrying readers along the river's last remaining backchannels and exploring how scientists hope to restore what has been lost
ER  -