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Excerpt from Mississippi's People Mississippi is land. It is square miles of the earth's surface bounded on the north by Tennessee, on the east by Alabama, on the south by Louisiana and the soft waters of the Gulf and on the west by The River, the storied Mississippi. In its variety Mississippi is more than this. It is the old plantation area on the loamy bluffs around Natchez. It is the live oaks and moss, shipbuilding and tourists of the Coast. It is the rolling black soil and milk cows of the Prairie, the flat black soil and cotton of the Delta. It is red hills and fertile valleys in the north; oil wells, lumber mills and truck farms in the south. Mississippi is more than its land and rivers; more than its natural resources, its farms and businesses. 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.

Excerpt from The Pioneers, Preachers and People Mississippi Valley IT is now nearly two and twenty years since my father pitched his tent in Prairie-land. I was then a lad. The broad savannas, clad with flowers; the emerald groves, that seemed like islands of the deep; the Father of Waters; the Mother of Floods the Beautiful River; the fierce, ostrich-like Piasau, whose outline on the bluffs of the Mississippi above Alton commemorates the Indian's dread of the terri ble being: these soon took a strong hold of my imagination. From that day to this, the West has been to me a land half of dream and half of reality. To read and hear everything connected with its history became a passion. I have sought in this book to set in order the results of this reading and hearing. It would be almost impossible for me to say what parts came to me from tradition and what from the written page. 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.

Excerpt from Recollections of Mississippi and Mississippians At the sale of public lands, ordered by the gen eral government, my father purchased a section of good land. 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.

Excerpt from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. 10 All persons who are interested in the work of the Society and desire to promote its Objects are invited to become members. There is no initiation fee. The only cost to members is, ' annual dues, or life dues 3 Members receive all Publications of the Society free of charge. Address all communications to the Secretary and Treasurer of the Mississippi Historical Society, University P. Mississippi. 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.

Excerpt from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. 1 To awaken greater interest in what. However estimated, Mississippians have accomplished in the field of literature. To provoke research into even its remote and unfrequented corners; and, chiefly, to place more prominently before the people of his much-loved State a poet too little known, is the double purpose of this essay. 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.

Excerpt from Life on the Mississippi Of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Turkey; and almost all this wide region is fertile; the Mississippi valley, proper, is exceptionally so. 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.

Excerpt from Mississippi, as a Province, Territory, and State, Vol. 1: Biographical Notices of Eminent Citizens 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.

Excerpt from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, 1916, Vol. 1 Immediately on the official announcement of the election, December 11th, 1867, a convention of the constitutional union party was called for January 15th, 1868. An address' was is sued reciting that great evils threatened the citizens oi the state in all their governmental rights, that the states of the South were foredooined to becomeafrican provmces, civil or der was paralyzed by the sword and all industry was demoral ized, For the purpose of thorough organization, consultation and action - to restore constitutional government and order, and for perpetuation of the union, the people of the various counties were urged to meet together and send delegates to a state convention. The gravity of the occasmn was not over stated. This threatened a feeling of despair to allay which the call was well timed. It gave assurance that in a period of dark est portents, of doubt and danger, the ship of state was not go ing to be abandoned to the'fury of the elements of evil without a struggle. The particular motive of organization was for defeat of the constitution when framed and submitted for rati fication by the black and tan convention. 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.

Excerpt from Frank on the Lower Mississippi In some places the streets ran through deep cuts in the bank, and in these banks were the famous gopher holes. They were caves dug in the ground, into which a person, if he happened to hear a shell coming, might run for safety. Outside the city, the fortifications were most extensive; rifle-pits ran in every direction, flanked by strong forts, whose battered walls attested the fury of the iron hail that had been poured12 frank ON the lower aiississippi. 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.

Excerpt from A History of Mississippi: From the Discovery of the Great River by Hernando Desoto, Including the Earliest Settlement Made by the French Under Iberville, to the Death of Jefferson Davis It is not proposed to deprecate criticism of any sort, whether reasonable or unreasonable. In the free land of America critics do much abound, and they have the unquestioned right to criticise whatsoever and whomsoever they please. The preparation of the volume now presented to the people of Mississippi has been a genuine labor of love. Each of the authors has spent the best years of his existence in the State. They have shared with their fellow-citizens the days of their prosperity and their years of poverty. They have rejoiced with them in their gladness, and have mourned with them in their long years of sorrow. Each is bound to the State by the dearest of human ties. Each has his dead reposing in her soil, and the' hope of each is that when the last tattoo is sounded for them, they, too, may rest in the bosom of Mississippi beside those who: have preceded them to the shadowy land of the hereafter. 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.