![]() However, it’s hard to know who to trust, and Houndstooth has revenge on his mind. Charged with the task of removing the feral hippos from the Harriet, Houndstooth enlists the help of some shady characters promising them great wealth if they assist in his operation. Hippo wranglers from around the world have since made their home here, one of them being Winslow Houndstooth. Although the original plan to breed them for their meat has gone awry and most of them escaped into the bayou, where they now roam free, vicious and fearsome. In an alternate 1890s, the Mississippi has been diverted to flood parts of Louisiana with thick marshland known as the Harriet to allow hippos to thrive. Sarah Gailey, however, obviously couldn’t let the idea rest and so has rewritten history to allow a world where it happened. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately for everyone (except maybe the hippos), this plan never came to fruition, and remains an odd historical quirk. They would be able to eat much of the invasive water hyacinth of the marshland, and in turn they could be farmed for their meat. ![]() “Winslow Remington Houndstooth was not a hero.”Ībout a century ago, a US senator suggested the the country imported hippopotamuses to the swamps of Louisiana. ![]()
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