As the 20th century began, swamps with immense timber resources covered much of the Missouri Bootheel. After investors harvested the timber, the landscape became overgrown. The conversion of swampland to farmland began with small drainage projects but complete reclamation was made possible by a system of ditches dug by the Little River Drainage District--the largest in the U.S., excavating more earth than for the Panama Canal. Farming quickly took over. The devastation of Southern cotton fields by boll weevils in the early 1920s brought to the cooler Bootheel an influx of black and white…mehr
As the 20th century began, swamps with immense timber resources covered much of the Missouri Bootheel. After investors harvested the timber, the landscape became overgrown. The conversion of swampland to farmland began with small drainage projects but complete reclamation was made possible by a system of ditches dug by the Little River Drainage District--the largest in the U.S., excavating more earth than for the Panama Canal. Farming quickly took over. The devastation of Southern cotton fields by boll weevils in the early 1920s brought to the cooler Bootheel an influx of black and white sharecroppers and cotton became the principal crop. Conflict over New Deal subsidies to increase cotton prices by reducing production led to the 1939 Sharecropper Demonstration, foreshadowing civil rights protests three decades later.
John C. Fisher is the author of two historical books, numerous food related articles, and a column for Missouri Life Magazine. He lives in Kennett, Missouri.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Geology and Geography of the Lowlands 2. The First Inhabitants 3. Euro-American Settlement to 1811 4. The New Madrid Earthquakes 5. Settlement, Early Agriculture and Civil War 6. Transportation 7. Timber 8. Beginning Reclamation 9. Little River Drainage District: Organization and Opposition 10. Little River Drainage District: Planning and Construction 11. Little River Drainage District: Floods, the Great Depression, Financial Failure and Recovery 12. Land Promotion, Post-Drainage Agriculture and Social Change 13. New Political and Religious Movements and the Sharecropper Demonstration 14. Politics and Farm Labor Changes 15. End of an Era Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Geology and Geography of the Lowlands 2. The First Inhabitants 3. Euro-American Settlement to 1811 4. The New Madrid Earthquakes 5. Settlement, Early Agriculture and Civil War 6. Transportation 7. Timber 8. Beginning Reclamation 9. Little River Drainage District: Organization and Opposition 10. Little River Drainage District: Planning and Construction 11. Little River Drainage District: Floods, the Great Depression, Financial Failure and Recovery 12. Land Promotion, Post-Drainage Agriculture and Social Change 13. New Political and Religious Movements and the Sharecropper Demonstration 14. Politics and Farm Labor Changes 15. End of an Era Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
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