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Deep’n as It Come: The 1927 Mississippi River Flood

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In the spring and summer of 1927, the Mississippi River and its tributaries flooded from Cairo, Illinois to New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Gulf of Mexico, tearing through seven states, on occasion spreading out to nearly one hundred miles across. Pete Daniel’s Deep’n as It Come, to be had again in a new format, chronicles the worst flood within the history of the South and re-creates, with ordinary immediacy, the Mississippi River’s devastating assault on property and lives. Daniel weaves his narrative with newspaper and firsthand accounts, interviews and survivors, official reports, and over 140 latest photographs. The story of the common refugee who suffered some of the effects of the flood emerges alongside the main points of the massive rescue and relief operation―one of the vital largest ever mounted in the US. The title, Deep’n as It Come, is a phrase from Cora Lee Campbell’s early description of he approaching water, which, Daniel writes, “moved at a pace of a few fourteen miles per day,” and in its movement and sound, “had the eeriness of a full eclipse of t he sun, unsettling, chilling.”

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