Southeast Missouri from swampland to farmland : the transformation of the lowlands /
The conversion of swampland to farmland began with small, local drainage projects but complete reclamation was made possible by a system of ditches dug by the Little River Drainage District. This book chronicles the development of the region in the contexts of its geology, history and sociology.
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Geology and geography of the lowlands
- The first inhabitants
- Euro-American settlement to 1811
- The New Madrid earthquakes
- Settlement, early agriculture and civil war
- Transportation
- Timber
- Beginning reclamation
- Little River Drainage District : organization and opposition
- Little River Drainage District : planning and construction
- Little River Drainage District : floods, the Great Depression, financial failure and recovery
- Land promotion, post-drainage agriculture and social change
- New political and religious movements and the sharecropper demonstration
- Politics and farm labor changes
- End of an era.