In 1964, nearly a thousand volunteers went to Mississippi to work with veteran civil rights organizers and local people on various projects. The summer began with three Ku Klux Klan murders and ended with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party's challenge to the state's segregationist delegation. This definitive analytical history--well-written and well-researched--tells the dramatic story. ...

Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
Written By: John Dittmer

This classic description of the interaction between the vast central plains of America and the people who lived there has, since its first publication in 1931, been one of the most influential, widely known, and controversial works in western history. Arguing that "the Great Plains environment. . .constitutes a geographic unity whose influences have been so powerful as to put a characteristic ...

Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
Written By: Walter Prescott Webb

Exceptionally rare and valued by book collectors, Otto A. Rothert’s riveting saga of the outlaws and scoundrels of Cave-in-Rock chronicles the adventures of an audacious cast of river pirates and highwaymen who operated in and around the famous Ohio River cavern from 1795 through 1820 (adventures featured in Disney’s Davy Crockett and the film How the West Was Won). ...

Manufacturer: Southern Illinois University
Written By: Otto A. Rothert

George Byron Merrick chronicles the entire panorama of steamboat life he experienced in the mid-1800s, where he started as a cabin boy and worked up to cub pilot on the mighty Mississippi. Originally published in 1909, Merrick's narrative matches lively stories about gamblers, shipwrecks, and steamboat races with rich descriptions of river life and steamboat operations. George Byron Merrick ...

Manufacturer: University of Minnesota Press
Written By: George Byron Merrick

Manufacturer: University Press of Mississippi
Written By: Anne S. Lipscomb, Kathleen Hutchison

Prentiss County residents, natives, and their ancestors are a vital piece in the puzzle of Mississippi history. In this book, you will see how life evolved from the early days of the county to the present, meeting the people, families and communities that have played a major role in the development of Prentiss County. This volume will allow today's generation to value their roots; to see the ...

Manufacturer: Turner Pub Co

Manufacturer: Southern Historical Pr
Written By: Walter Lowrie

Manufacturer: Southern Historical Pr
Written By: Walter Lowrie

Manufacturer: Reprint Co
Written By: J. C. Rietti

Manufacturer: Two Trails Publishing
Written By: Carolyn M Bartels