They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans

by Macon Fry

Book Overview

They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans is the previously untold story of perhaps the oldest outsider settlement in America, an invisible community on the annually flooded shores of the Mississippi River. This community exists in the place between the normal high and low water line of the Mississippi River, a zone known in Louisiana as the batture. For the better part of two centuries, batture dwellers such...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496852125
• ISBN13: 9781496852120
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"