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Delta empire : Lee Wilson and the transformation of agriculture in the new South /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whayne, Jeannie M.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2011]
Series:Making the modern South.
Subjects:
Wilson, Lee, > 1865-1933.
Farmers > Arkansas > Mississippi County > Biography.
Plantation owners > Arkansas > Mississippi County > Biography.
Businessmen > Arkansas > Mississippi County > Biography.
Agriculture > Arkansas > Mississippi County > History.
Plantations > Arkansas > Mississippi County > History.
Plantation life > Arkansas > Mississippi County > History.
Social change > Arkansas > Mississippi County > History.
Mississippi County (Ark.) > History.
Mississippi County (Ark.) > Biography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The shaping of the land
  • The making of the man
  • A river of woe : reshaping the land
  • A new South entrepreneur in the progressive era
  • Building it of brick and hollow tile
  • "The wind have changed" : the flood of 1927
  • "Get hard and raise hell"
  • Changing of the guard
  • The return of the "class boy"
  • Appendix: Tables.