http://thewonderlustjournal.com/i-love-maps-im-dying-this-is-so-amazing/ Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:47:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 http://thewonderlustjournal.com/i-love-maps-im-dying-this-is-so-amazing/#comment-61 Elizabeth Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:36:13 +0000 http://thewonderlustjournal.com/?p=1086#comment-61 I love these, too. I've always thought they look like someone threw a pile of ribbons on top of a map. The Corps of Engineers had a "tame and conquer" philosophy of the Mississippi for so long, because of its crazy fluctuations. They built a scale hydraulic model around the same time that they commissioned the maps:
http://worldofdecay.blogspot.com/2010/01/mississippi-river-basin-model-jackson.html

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