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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
Chronology
Prologue: History, Nature, and a Forgotten Sea
Introduction: Birth
Part One: Estuaries, and The Lie of the Land and Sea: Aborigines and Colonizing Europeans
One. Mounds
Two. El Golfo de México
Three. Unnecessary Death
Four. A Most Important River, and a “Magnificent” Bay
Part Two: Sea and Sky: American Debuts in the Nineteenth Century
Five. Manifest Destiny
Six. A Fishy Sea
Seven. The Wild Fish That Tamed the Coast
Eight. Birds of a Feather, Shot Together
Part Three: Preludes to the Future
Nine. From Bayside to Beachside
Ten. Oil and the Texas Toe Dip
Eleven. Oil and the Louisiana Plunge
Twelve. Islands, Shifting Sands of Time
Thirteen. Wind and Water
Part Four: Saturation and Loss: Post-1945
Fourteen. The Growth Coast
Fifteen. Florida Worry, Texas Slurry
Sixteen. Rivers of Stuff
Seventeen. Runoff, and Runaway
Eighteen. Sand in the Hourglass
Nineteen. Losing the Edge
Epilogue: A Success Story amid So Much Else
Acknowledgments
Notes
Additional Selected Sources
Illustration Credits
Index
Also by Jack E. Davis
Copyright
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