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Oggetto che si trova a: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Stati Uniti
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Consegna prevista tra il gio 9 ott e il mar 14 ott a 94104
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Restituzioni entro 14 giorni. Le spese di spedizione del reso sono a carico dell'acquirente..
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Numero oggetto eBay:157331257994
Specifiche dell'oggetto
- Condizione
- Release Year
- 2008
- ISBN
- 9781436364775
Informazioni su questo prodotto
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Xlibris Corporation LLC
ISBN-10
1436364779
ISBN-13
9781436364775
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71657316
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mingo : Southeast Missouri's Ancient Swamp and the Countryside Surrounding It
Number of Pages
420 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
General, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi)
Genre
History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
27.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2008-090751
Synopsis
Tribesmen regarded Mingo Swamp as a rare wildlife haven and made it a favored hunting ground long before white settlers discovered it, but in even earlier times, the storied Mississippi River passed through it moving to Arkansas. The soggy countryside around it made a good part of the neighborhood virtually inaccessible and therefore sparsely settled at the time of the Civil War; but Mingo, nevertheless, became one of Missouri's more hotly contested battlegrounds. Guerrillas fighting for the Lost Cause made its cypress and water tupelo forests their hideout, and it is identified to this day with one of the state's bloodiest encounters, the Battle of Mingo Swamp. The treacherous swamp's abundance of natural resources first attracted hardy backwoodsmen, but the entire countryside remained commercially undeveloped until arrival of the railroad and the founding in 1883 of Pucksekaw, now Puxico, which quickly became the base of a great logging and tie operation headed by newcomer Thomas J. Moss, the town's esteemed merchant prince who quickly became the largest tie contractor in the state. After the great timber boom ended in the early 1900s, newly organized Mingo Drainage District, encompassing 39,786 acres in Stoddard and Wayne counties, sought to clear the stumpage and drain the swamp to enhance agricultural pursuits and control costly St. Francis River overflows. After that glorious adventure failed in the 1930s, the federal government stepped in to acquire land for construction of two ambitious projects that changed the countryside forever, the 21,676-acre Mingo National Wildlife Refuge and, just beyond it to the west, a dam on the St. Francis River that created sprawling Lake Wappapello, which, in both land and water, encompasses more than 44,000 acres. Shortly thereafter, in the early 1950s, the Missouri Conservation Commission acquired the rest of the swamp to establish what now is Duck Creek Conservation Area, which encompasses 6,234 acres in Wayne, Bollinger, and Stoddard counties. Though obviously vastly different now and managed today by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Mingo remains one of America's premier wildlife havens. It is home to tens of thousands of waterfowl, three distinct ecosystems, and an incredible diversity of plants and animals. A great number of rare species, such as the swamp rabbit and the alligator snapping turtle, still strive at Mingo.
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