Excerpt from The Great South: A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland America during the whole of the year 1873 and the Spring and summer of 1874. The journey was undertaken at the instance of the publishers of Scribner's Monthly Magazine, who desired to present to the public,...