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# Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
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- Published: 2026-09-05T21:42:29.000Z
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- Description: John M. Barry, 1997
- Author: Meghan Walter
- Tags: Reading, Non-fiction, #Import 2026-09-05 14:48

Peter Smith Pub Inc · 1997 · 528 pages · [ISBN 9780671576936](https://openlibrary.org/isbn/9780671576936?ref=meghantheengineer.com)

In 1927, the Mississippi River swept across an area roughly equal in size to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont combined, leaving water as deep as thirty feet on the land stretching from Illinois and Missouri south to the Gulf of Mexico. Close to a million people - in a nation of 120 million - were forced out of their homes. Some estimates place the death toll in the thousands. The Red Cross fed nearly 700,000 refugees for months.

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