TREES OF RACCOURCI

About the Book

The towering Bald Cypress trees are huge, today the world’s largest, but so was the fight to save them. If they are cut the flood water will over-top the Pointe Coupee protection levee and devastate the people, their crops and their homes. The trees belong to large timber companies and they must harvest them. The people need the wages paid to cut them. One man, the antagonist, commits murder and uses the feud to hide his crime. As in real life he is an expert marksman and horseman like no other. He is sent to prison, Angola, but USES his skill to make a daring escape. A huge alligator mauls a tree cutter and he dies of his injury. Fear stops the harvesting until a large reward is placed on the man killer and the island is alive with reward seekers. The cutting goes on after the man killer is eliminated. The feud was real and the flood of 1882 was and still is the largest on the lower Mississippi River. The people of Pointe Coupee needed to stop the tree cutting, but a shift in the river had cut Raccourci Island off and it isn’t part of Pointe Coupee.

About the Author

The author, a self taught geophysicist, spent many years working internationality in geology and aerial surveys. He came up with his theory in 1949 and tried very hard for many years to prove or disprove it. He is now giving it to the public for their approval.