TY - BOOK ID - 135186797 TI - The Big Muddy PY - 2012 SN - 1283739631 0199977062 0199717907 9780199717903 9781283739634 9780195316919 0195316916 PB - New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - Stream ecology KW - Human ecology KW - History. KW - Mississippi River KW - Mississippi River Valley KW - Environmental conditions. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135186797 AB - In The Big Muddy, the first long-term environmental history of the Mississippi, Christopher Morris offers a brilliant tour across five centuries as he illuminates the interaction between people and the landscape, from early hunter-gatherer bands to present-day industrial and post-industrial society. Morris shows that when Hernando de Soto arrived at the lower Mississippi Valley, he found an incredibly vast wetland, forty thousand square miles of some of the richest, wettest land in North America, deposited there by the big muddy river that ran through it. But since then much has changed, for t ER -