Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Arkansas River Flood of June 3-5, 1921 The flood was remarkable for the very small area covered by the rainfall that was its chief cause, and for the swift rise Of the river to an unprecedented stage and its almost equally rapid fall. The swift rise and fall indicated very great flood discharges of the tributary streams, which drain a mountainous country Of steep slopes. The total discharge Of the main flood was less than acre-feet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.