Bibliograph

When the Mississippi ran backwards, empire, intrigue, murder, and the New Madrid earthquakes, Jay Feldman

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When the Mississippi ran backwards, empire, intrigue, murder, and the New Madrid earthquakes, Jay Feldman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-294) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

When the Mississippi ran backwards

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

56685129

Responsibility statement

Jay Feldman

Sub title

empire, intrigue, murder, and the New Madrid earthquakes

Summary

An account of the ecological and historical impact of a series of Mississippi River Valley earthquakes in 1811 and 1812 documents how towns were destroyed and political loyalties were altered, changing the course of the War of 1812

Table Of Contents

I: Portents -- A time of extraordinaries -- II: Rumblings -- A country equal to our most sanguine wishes -- Disappointments and sufferings -- One of those uncommon geniuses -- The impending destruction -- The bloody ground -- The monster of the waters -- III: Upheaval -- All nature was in a state of dissolution -- A real chaos -- IV: Aftershocks -- The accumulated load of public odium -- A war of extirpation -- The fatal blow -- The field of slaughter

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