TC travels, 2014 TR, Pg 904, 2015 TR pg 964
Table of Contents Our 2009 travels started here on March 1, 2009 The first pictures appeared at page 15. We couldn't get our data card to work with our new computer. New Orleans and the Bayou c...
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sleepy wrote:
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But after seeing many of them it occurs to me that there might be a more basic reason: To be able to take refuge from flooding rivers.
Water is important for drinking, cooking, irrigation, fishing, hunting, and transportation... when you have thousands of people you need to be close to a lot of water... big rivers.
But... there is always the risk of floods... the Mississiooi River Valley is too wide to to find high ground to survive until the flood waters recede. All of the reasons that I mentioned above might have played a part but... survival was probably the motivation to carry a million baskets of dirt to build one mound............
This has been my theory for many years. I don't recall ever reading this in any publication. Those people lived in those locations and travelled only on foot therefore could not quickly move away from a flooding river. A good example would be the Tennessee river prior to being tamed by TVA.
Really enjoy riding along with you on your adventures.
