When the Mississippi ran backwards empire, intrigue, murder, and the New Madrid earthquakes
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.
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New York, N.Y. :
Free Press,
c2005.
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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.
