The Lower Mississippi River Water Trail
Rivergator Atchafalaya River Appendix 1:
Sources
Contributing writers:
Mark River Peoples
Wolf E. Staudinger
Books:
Designing the Bayous: The Control of Water in the Atchafalaya Basin, 1800-1995
2004, Gulf Coast Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
by Martin Reuss
The Atchafalaya River Basin: History and Ecology of an American Wetland
2013, Nature Conservancy, Texas A&M Press
by Bryan Piazza
Cajun Families of the Atchafalaya
1989, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
by Greg Guirard
Inherit the Atchafalaya
2007, Center for Louisiana Studies
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
by Greg Guirard and C. Ray Brassieur
Canoeing Louisiana
2003, University Press of Mississippi
by Ernest Herndon
Atchafalaya Swamp Life: Settlement and Folk Occupations
1972, LSU School of Geoscience
by Malcolm L. Comeaux
Bayou-Diversity: Nature and People in Louisiana Bayou Country
2011, Louisiana State University Press
by Kelby Ouchley
The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana: From 1542 to the Present
1994, Louisiana State University Press
The Control of Nature: Atchcafalaya
1989, Farrar Straus Giroux
by John McPhee
C.C. Lockwood’s Atchafalaya
2007, C. C. Lockwood
Atchafalaya: America’s Largest River Basin Swamp
Atchafalaya Houseboat: My Years in the Louisiana Swamp
2006, Louisiana State University Press
by Gwen Roland, photos by C.C. Lockwood
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America
1997, Simon & Schuster
by John M. Barry
The Mississippi River in 1953:
A Photographic Journey from the Headwaters to the Gulf of Mexico
2005, The Center for American Places
by Charles Dee Sharp
Historic Names and Places on the Lower Mississippi River
1977, Mississippi River Commission
by Marion Bragg
Seasons of Light in the Atchafalaya Basin
1989, Greg Guirard
With two stories by William Faulkner
Websites:
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/wma/2785
Wikipedia
Atchafalaya River Basin River Gages
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lmrfc/?n=atchafalayariverbasin
Lower Mississippi River Gauge and Week Forecast
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lmrfc/?n=lmrfc-mississippiandohioriverforecast
The New Orleans Times-Picayune
Atchafalaya National Heritage Area
Atchafalaya Basinkeeper
Quinta Scott: Atchafalaya River Blog
https://quintascott.wordpress.com/category/atchafalaya-river/
John McPhee: The Control of Nature
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya
Bayou Teche Project
Bayou Teche Water Trail
http://techeproject.org/bayou-teche-paddle-trail/
Louisiana Folklife Program
http://www.louisianafolklife.org/lt/virtual_books/guide_to_state/comeaux.html
Center for Traditional Louisiana Boat Building
Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana
http://www.nicholls.edu/boat/index.html
Films:
Pirogue Maker
14 minutes, Black and White; Original format: Film: 35mm
1949, by Arnold Eagle
(In 1948, Robert Flaherty was working on “The Louisiana Story.” He was searching for a small boat, or “pirogue” for his young hero. Flaherty soon became aware that pirogue-making was a disappearing art. Finally, when he found Ebdon Allemon, a Cajun craftsman, he persuaded him to make the pirogue. It may well have been the last piroque made in Louisiana. This is a record of that event.)
http://www.folkstreams.net/film,188
Old Man River Project
2009 documentary film, in 10 episodes
by Canadian adventurer Brett Rogers
(The story begins in Kingston, Ontario. Brett and Cliff build a York Boat named Annie. Brett lays out his plan: with Cliff as First Mate, he will lead a crew 2400 miles down the Mississippi River to reach the Gulf of Mexico and donate their boat Annie to the Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper)
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