The Yazoo River - Softcover

Smith, Frank E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878053557 ISBN 13: 9780878053551

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 1988

Synopsis

The Yazoo River unlocks the door to one of the most unusual and diverse regions in America, the culturally, strategically, and agriculturally rich Delta flatland embraced by two rivers, the Mississippi and the Yazoo. It is a land that has produced the best cotton, the Blues, celebrated personages, and a style of living like that nowhere else.

The author, Frank E. Smith, was a U.S. Congressman from this region. His perspective on the Yazoo Delta Region, therefore, is particularly valuable since it comes from his varied experience as a member of the House of Representatives, where he concentrated on the special problems of conservation and development of natural resources, and from his being a consecrated devotee and native son of the Delta.

In The Yazoo River he recounts the important history, the folklife, and the heritage that make this place unique. Though time and social revolution in the Civil Rights era have brought many changes to the Yazoo region, Frank Smith's book remains virtually undated in the fair balance he gives his accounts and in his presentation of historical fact.

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Book Description

An immensely pleasurable book that unlocks the door to one of the most unusual and diverse regions in the U.S., the culturally rich Delta flatland embraced by two rivers, the Mississippi and the Yazoo

From the Publisher

This edition, reprinting a classic published more than thirty years ago, makes available again a book that depicts the Delta country better than any other. In 1954 it was hailed as "the best book on the Deep South in twenty years," It is the story of people and places, of cities, towns, and countryside; of local legends and national history; of the customs of the country. The editors of the Rivers of America series, in which it originally was issued, called it "American historiography at its best."

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0878053557
• ISBN 13: 9780878053551
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 380