General Mississippi River
Links
Sources
- Cobb, James C. The Most Southern Place on
Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity.
Oxford University Press, 1992.
- Elliott, D. O. The Improvement of the Lower
Mississippi River for Flood Control and Navigation. Vicksburg:
U.S. Waterways Experiment Station, 1932. 3 vols.
- Feringa, P. A. and Chas W. Schweizer. One
Hundred Years Improvement on the Lower Mississippi River.
Vicksburg: Mississippi River Commission, 1952.
- Jackson, T. H. Bank Protection on Mississippi
and Missouri Rivers. Washington: U. S. Army Corps of Engineers,
1935.
- McDermott, John F., ed. Before Mark Train: A
Sampler of Old, Old Times on the Mississippi. Carbondale, Il.:
1968.
- Moore, Jamie W., and Dorothy P. Moore. The
Army Corps of Engineers and the Evolution of Federal Flood Plain
Management Policy. Boulder: Institute of Behavioral Sciences,
1989.
- Moore, Norman R. Improvement of the Lower
Mississippi River and Tributaries, 1931-1972. Vicksburg:
Mississippi River Commission, 1972.
- Reuss, Martin. "Andrew A. Humphreys and the
Development of Hydraulic Engineering: Politics and Technology in the
Army Corps of Engineers, 1850-1950." Technology and Culture
26 (January 1985).
- Robinson, Michael C., and Loyde T. Ethridge.
"History of Bank Protection through the Use of Revetments."
In Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses (P.I.A.N.C.),
Centenaire de l'Association Internationale Permanente des Congres de
Navigation/Centenary of the Permanent International Association of
Navigation Congresses 1885-1985, Brussels. 1985: 276-354.
- Shallat, Todd. Structures in the Stream:
Water, Science, and the Rise of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
- Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. New
York: Bantam Classic edition, 1981.