Delta Days, Tales of the Mississippi Delta
Lawrence, Thomas R.
The Mississippi Delta starts in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis and ends on catfish row in Vicksburg according to writer David Cohn. The Delta is an alluvial deposit of thirty feet of fertile loam, stolen from the prairies of America's Midwestern breadbasket by the Mississippi River and moved down south by annual flooding. The soil of the Corn Belt is now nurturing King Cotton. In the 1950s the Delta was more than a geographical loca...
