It takes the average reader 4 hours and 20 minutes to read Southeast Missouri from Swampland to Farmland by John C. Fisher
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
As the 20th century began, swamps with immense timber resources covered much of the Missouri Bootheel. After investors harvested the timber, the landscape became overgrown. The conversion of swampland to farmland began with small drainage projects but complete reclamation was made possible by a system of ditches dug by the Little River Drainage District--the largest in the U.S., excavating more earth than for the Panama Canal. Farming quickly took over. The devastation of Southern cotton fields by boll weevils in the early 1920s brought to the cooler Bootheel an influx of black and white...
Southeast Missouri from Swampland to Farmland by John C. Fisher is 260 pages long, and a total of 65,000 words.
This makes it 88% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 55 minutes to read Southeast Missouri from Swampland to Farmland aloud.
Southeast Missouri from Swampland to Farmland is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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