...William B. Hamilton The Yazoo River ( Rivers of America , edited by Carl Carmer) . By Smith Frank E. . New York and Toronto : Rinehart and Company , 1954 . Pp. xvi , 362 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 Book Reviews 435 The Story of Our Civilization...

... the Fair Play that morning. The Georgia delegation consisted of James Hendricks, titular chairman, James Simms, and James Jackson. The last named had recently attained notoriety by leading the forces that revoked the 'Yazoo act, a piece of legislation that had deprived the state of millions of western...

... brother, Alexander, in Cincinnati. He ran away from this home and worked his way by odd jobs on river packets to Yazoo City, Mississippi, on the Yazoo River, to join his brother Joseph, who had a mercantile business. After brother Joseph went bankrupt in the depression of 1837, Henry Clay Lewis worked...

.... The frontier swamp doctor was born in Charleston of a mixture of Jewish and Protestant ancestry. After the death of his mother, he was placed in the home of his oldest brother, Alexander, in Cincinnati. He ran away from this home and worked his way by odd jobs on river packets to Yazoo City, Mississippi...

... of suggested readings that might have invited some exploration in depth of the out­ standing chapters in Western history. Joel colton The Yazoo River (Rivers of America, edited by Carl Carmer). By Frank E. Smith. New York and Toronto: Rinehart and Company, 1954. Pp. xvi, 362. $4.00. The standard recipe...

... in a particular time and place. The place is a plantation on the Yazoo River, the time 1923. We arrive at Shellmound with a wedding guest, the nine-year-old cousin Laura McRaven of Jackson, whose father has brought her to Yazoo City and put her on the Yellow Dog (the Yazoo-Delta Line). Yazoo City sits on a bluff...

..., never appointed Federalists; he was aiming at securing more than half of the public offices for the members of his own party. He was always in search of legislative leaders. Randolph, the most able, was difficult to handle and finally broke with Jefferson in 1806, not in 1805 over the Yazoo con­...

.... By David L. Cohn. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948. Pp. xiv, 380. $4.00. Mr. Cohn is a native of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, an area of large plantations and a heavy Negro population. In 1935 he issued God. Shakes Creation, an effort to portray the Delta Negro. The present book is an enlarged edition...

... of State. The subjects are among the most colorful and dra­ matic in American history: the Louisiana purchase, Toussaint L Ouverture, the Burr-Hamilton duel, Burr s conspiracy in the West, the Yazoo fraud, General Miranda and the Venezuelan expeditions, the Barbary Pirates, the war with Tripoli...

... of such a collection, there are two attributes of this book that brought this reader, a Mississippian, considerable satisfaction. The first is the thrilling tale of the economic revolution in the Yazoo basin, which occupies a good portion of the book. Miserable farming practices, a blood-sucking credit system...

..., deals with the expansion of the South, which is perhaps the most striking element in that section s development in these years. The Yazoo speculation, the Blount conspiracy, Wilkinson s maneuvers, and Burr s treachery are thoroughly explored and Dr. Aber- ...

... in the struggle over the ratification of the Constitution and later its interpreta­ tion as reflected in the formulation of early federal policies. Much of this work, however, deals with the expansion of the South, which is perhaps the most striking element in that section s development in these years. The Yazoo...

..., never appointed Federalists; he was aiming at securing more than half of the public offices for the members of his own party. He was always in search of legislative leaders. Randolph, the most able, was difficult to handle and finally broke with Jefferson in 1806, not in 1805 over the Yazoo con­...

... of the society, twenty-seven papers the most notable of which perhaps, are: The Rank and File at Vicksburg by Col. J. H. Jones; Yazoo County in the Civil War, and Recon­ struction in Yazoo County, by Judge Robert Bowman; Johnson s Division in the Battle of Franklin, by Gen. S. D. Lee; Reconstruction...

... and important for an understanding of Babylon and its aftermath. Richard L. Watson, Jr. Where I Was Born and Raised. By David L. Cohn. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948. Pp. xiv, 380. $4.00. Mr. Cohn is a native of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, an area of large plantations and a heavy Negro population. In 1935 he...

... purchase, Toussaint L Ouverture, the Burr-Hamilton duel, Burr s conspiracy in the West, the Yazoo fraud, General Miranda and the Venezuelan expeditions, the Barbary Pirates, the war with Tripoli, the Chesapeake-Leopard outrage, nonim­ portation, the embargo, peaceful coercion, and three presidential...

... the southern members of the Jeffersonian Republican party were uneasy when Randolph, in the month prior to the opening of the impeachment trial, had thrown himself wholeheartedly against the compromise settlement of the Yazoo land claims,1 thereby opposing the policy of his distant kinsman, the President...

... Mississippi 267 to the national party managers is: don t reward your enemies. Strike down the recalcitrants. In addition to his other sins, Smith was for Kennedy and he was literate. He read books and even wrote one, on The Yazoo for the Rivers of America Series, an interesting book showing an understanding...

.... The Illinois Central railroad system did not enter the South until it gained control of the Yazoo and Mississippi which was well into the later period. The Union Pacific was only completed in 1869 and was hardly prepared to expand at this time. Most of the railroads which operated during this period were com­...

... boom in Florida. Of these, dur­ ing November, all with the exception of the Southern Rail­ Killing the Goose with the Golden Eggs 2,27 way and the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley suffered losses. Among them were the Atlantic Coast Line, the Louisville and Nashville, the Florida East Coast...