Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flood/timeline/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mississippi_Flood_of_1927
http://www.archive.org/details/mississippi_flood_1927
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/05/0501_river4.html
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/investigations/es1308/es1308page05.cfm
Mentioned in Langston Hughes autobiography, The Big Sea:
http://books.google.com/books?id=SsgPcfpjhBcC&pg=PA216&lpg=PA216&dq=Mississippi+Flood+1927+Langston+hughes&source=web&ots=_WsI99ylle&sig=HjACIYT0siONVhDL31YosfV0X24&hl=en#PPA216,M1
