Bayou Farewell is the best book that I have ever read. Also, I just ordered a book titled, Last Days of Last Island, by Bill Dixon. It is the true story about the days when Last Island was the home to a luxury resort before getting blasted by a hurricane in 1856. Supposedly, the science of hurricane prediction was not nearly as good as it is today and they never saw it coming. It just came in the mail today, so I can't give you an actual review of the book yet.
Another good one that I read is Rising Tide, by John M. Barry, about the flood of 1927 and the leveeing of the Mississippi River in response to it.
I had never heard about Plugger, but I am now planning to get it.
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