ers of History will interest primarily southern and environmental histori- ans and those associated with the federal construction agencies, who will find it a modest but welcome addition to the bookshelf beside such re- cent and excellent works as Jeffrey K. Stine's Mixing the Waters: Envi- ronmental Politics and the Building of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Water- way and Jack Temple Kirby's Poquosin: A Study of Rural Landscape and