This Delta, This Land: An Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Floodplain

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Index Unless otherwise indicated, settlements, towns, and counties are located in Mississippi. Abbey, Richard, 190, 225–26 Adair, James, 70 Adams County, 29 Agricultural Adjustment Administration (aaa), 236 agriculture: colonial, 87–88; land clearing for purposes of, 109, 134–35, 220, 237, 238–39, 240–41, 242; mechanization of cotton, 132, 237; on National Wildlife Refuges, 246; post–World War II, in bottomlands, 238–39; regional shifts in cotton, 132; slash-andburn , 62–63, 106; swidden, 62–63; utilization of cutovers for, 186, 216–17. See also corn; cotton; plantations Alabama River, 31 alcohol, consumption by levee workers and loggers, 147, 185, 196 Alcorn, James Lusk, 146 Allen, Charles B., 198 Allen, LeRoy Barry, 193 Alliance Trust Co., 211 359 360 Index alligator, American, 47, 235, 245, 267 (n. 32) Altamaha River, 31 American Forestry Association, 217 American Hardwoods Manufacturers Association, 198 amphibians, 46–47 Anderson-Tully Company, 194, 246 Andrew Brown Lumber Company: becomes Learned Lumber Company, 183; logging operations by, 181–83 Apalachicola River, 31 Arkabutla Reservoir, 164 Arkansas Oak Flooring Company, 214 Arkansas River, 31, 72, 163 Arnold, Kokomo, 131 ash, 41, 169, 187, 197, 198; green, 42 Ashe, W. W., 217 Atchafalaya River, 31, 163, 174 Audubon, John James, 42, 49–50, 67, 143, 222, 234 Bailey, Robert E., 27 Baily, Francis, 47 baldcypress. See cypress Baton Rouge, La., 161, 180 batture land, 37, 162, 244 bear, black, 47, 143, 231, 245, 252; hunting of, by Native Americans, 66; population declines of, 83, 233, 234; sport hunting of, 112, 232–34 beaver, 47 beech, 43 Belzoni, 238 Benton, Thomas Hart, 144 Berry, C. Fred, 200–214 Berry, James W., 206, 211, 212–13, 214 Berryman, Clifford, 234 Beulah, 213 Bienville, Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de, 73, 142 Big Black River, 167 Biltmore Forest School, 216 bioregion: concept of, 24–25; Delta as, 247 birch, river, 42 birds, 48–50, ; hunting of, 232, 234– 35; on Mississippi National Wildlife Refuges, 245; Native Americans and, 67–68; as pest control, 114; in slave folklore, 101–2. See also individual species bison, 47, 64, 83, 230 Black Bayou, 181 Black Creek, 179 Black Creek Wilderness Area, 244 blacks: emigration of, from Delta, 123; immigration of, to Delta, 114–16, 127; as landowners, 116–17, 122– 23. See also blues; sharecroppers; slaves; tenancy Blanton, Orville M., 108, 125, 232, 309 (n. 39) Blantonia, 103 blues, 123; on boll weevil, 131; on flooding, 149, 157–58 Blytheville, Leachville & Arkansas Southern Railroad, 200 Bobet brothers (Edward J. and Alphonse), stave purchases by, 188–89 Bogue Phalia River, 179 Bolivar County, 28, 41, 98; agriculture in, 97, 109, 129, 222; attempts at flood control in, 148; cotton production in, 110, 126; crevasse in, 157; cypress in, 179–80, 187; hardwoods in, 187; immigrants in, Index 361 147; logging in, 194, 212–13, 228; population of, 106, 127; sawmills in, 187; wildlife in, 50, 233 boll weevil, 129, 130–32; in blues, 131 Bond, James, 270 (n. 57) bottomland hardwood forests: animal communities of, 45–50; classification of, 44–45; climate of, 31–34; decline of, 214, 221, 240, 242–43; definition of, 30; development of, 33–34, 37–38; effects of fire on, 44, 215; effects of flooding on, 36–37; effects of war effort on, 212–13, 228; extent of, 30–31; old-growth, 223, 225–26, 243; plant communities of, 40–45; soils of, 37, 38–39; succession in, 41–44; surveys of, 196, 214, 219, 221–26; synonyms for, 30; topography of, 37–38, 45. See also hardwoods “Bo-Weavil Blues,” 131 Bowman, R. H., 150 boxelder, 41, 43, 95 Brandfon, Robert L., 4 Braudel, Fernand, 7, 15–16, 24 Brown, Andrew, 169, 181–83 buffalo. See bison buffalofish, 100, 102 butternut, 64 Caernarvon, 159 Cahokia, 60 Cairo, Ill., 27, 150, 200 Calhoun, G. W., 201, 202–3, 206 Calhoun, John C., 144 Calhoun County, 193 Cameron, Paul C., 99, 103, 108–9 cane, 41, 42, 44, 115; as indicator of good soil, 97; Native American uses of, 68. See also canebrakes canebrakes, 40, 41, 47, 95–96; clearing of, 102–3; as pastureland, 83, 103. See also cane Cape Fear River, 31 Carrier Lumber Manufacturing Company, 194 Carroll County, 28; sawmills in, 187 Carter, Alfred Grayson, 152 Cary, Austin, 217 Catesby, Mark, 67 catfish, 66, 102; farming of, 238, 242 Chakchiuma, 72, 73, 78 Chambers, Rowland, 32, 232 Chapman, H. H., 217...