The Final Frontiers, 1880-1930: Settling the Southern Bottomlands

by John Solomon Otto

An examination of the settlement history of the alluvial bottomlands of the lower Mississippi Valley from 1880 to 1930, this study details how cotton-growers transformed the swamplands of northwestern Mississippi, northeastern Louisiana, northeastern Arkansas, and southern Missouri into cotton fields. Although these alluvial bottomlands contained the richest cotton soils in the American South, cotton-growers in the Southern bottomlands faced a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313289638
• ISBN13: 9780313289637
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"