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

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

Jay Feldman

307 pages first pub 2005 (view editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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On December 15, 1811, two of Thomas Jefferson's nephews murdered a slave in cold blood and put his body parts into a roaring fire. The evidence would have been destroyed but for a rare act of God -- or, as some believed, of the Indian chief Tecums...

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