Mississippi River Country Tales: A Celebration of 500 Years of Deep South History

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MISSISSIPPI RIVER COUNTRY TALES is a historic journey through the river towns of the Deep South, beginning with DeSoto and early settlement of the area, through stories of land pirates, steamboats, and scoundrels, right up through the Civil War and the struggle for Civil Rights.

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Jim Frasier is a contributing editor and columnist for the Metro Business ...
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Overview

MISSISSIPPI RIVER COUNTRY TALES is a historic journey through the river towns of the Deep South, beginning with DeSoto and early settlement of the area, through stories of land pirates, steamboats, and scoundrels, right up through the Civil War and the struggle for Civil Rights.

About The Author:
Jim Frasier is a contributing editor and columnist for the Metro Business Review, and is a contributing writer, columnist and reviewer for the Northside Sun.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781565547872
  • Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 11/28/2000
  • Pages: 168
  • Sales rank: 1,323,199
  • Product dimensions: 7.54 (w) x 8.46 (h) x 0.47 (d)

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JIM FRAISER is a federal administrative law judge and a law school and college instructor. He is a freelance journalist/photographer and has written regularly for various Mississippi publications. A professional actor and director, Fraiser is a member of the Screen Actor's Guild.
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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 11, 2000

    Deep South History more exciting than I realized!

    This book is the only one I've yet seen which covers the history of Mississippi and Louisiana from DeSoto to Faulkner in such a fun way. The Civil War section included stories that I never knew about, like the one about the woman impregnated by a bullet, and the story of the Star of the West, the ship fired upon to start the war at Ft. Sumpter, and later hijacked and sunk by Rebels at Greenwood, MS., to stop Grant's back door approach to Vicksburg. There are great stories from the riverboat and Natchez Trace bandit era, as well as the Teddy Roosevelt teddy bear hunt, he Casey Jones train wreck, the John L. Sullivan world championship fight in 1889, civl rights struggles, great Ole Miss & Walter Payton ballgames, Delta politics, Indian legends, haunted mansions, Jim Bowie's duels, ironclad battles, and everything you can imagine. The enjoyable, easy to read style makes this book fun, and not like some musty old history book!

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