That power would be unleashed during the great Mississippi River flood of 1927. Raised on his family's plantation in Natchez, Mississippi, Butler went to Tulane University and its law school ...

On New Year’s Day, the Mississippi itself went above flood stage at ... could not dictate to a great river; they could only accommodate its awesome power. Since 1927, the lower Mississippi ...

Barry is the author of The Great Influenza and Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, which received the 1998 Francis Parkman Prize for the best book of U.S ...

Prior to 1882, Mississippi Delta planters had to rely ... One year later, the Great Flood of 1927 would prove just how wrong they were.