When the Mississippi Ran Backwards : Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes

from cathyskye

Setting: New Madrid, Missouri and surrounding area, 1811 The shocks that devastated the Mississippi River town of New Madrid, Missouri and environs in the winter of 1812 were among the strongest earthquakes in America's history. In human terms they were fairly inconsequential since only about 100...

from maggiereads

Just 3 days after an earthquake hits our region, Jay Feldman appears on C-SPAN2's Book TV discussing, When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes. The book's March 2005 debut eerily coincides with three quakes of 4.0 magnitude in our New Madrid sei...

from porch_reader

I picked this book up because it is the June read for the Missouri Readers Group. I grew up in Northeastern Missouri, and I was a senior in high school when Dr. Iben Browning (a climatological and business consultant) predicted that the New Madrid fault system would produce a large earthquake in ...

from tloeffler

Jay Feldman has written a very-well researched story of the New Madrid earthquakes in 1811-1812, However, he has taken it much further than that, and included other related incidents, a la Erik Larsen, to create a book that goes far beyond just the earthquakes. Some of his connections are a littl...

from MarianV

Although his book is titled "When the Mississippi Ran Backwards", then subtitled "Empire, Intrigue Murder & the New Madrid earthquakes" author Jay Feldman dwells too much on other historical events that took place at the same time as the earthquakes in the territ oryof Missouri. His narration of ...