Download or read book Early Settlers of Lafayette Co Mississippi written by John Cooper Hathorn and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Settlers of Lafayette County Mississippi written by John Cooper Hathorn and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some Early History of Lafayette County Mississippi written by Daughters of the American Revolution. David Reese Chapter (Oxford, Miss.) and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Faulkner and Southern History written by Joel Williamson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-12-14 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's great novelists, William Faulkner was a writer deeply rooted in the American South. In works such as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner drew powerfully on Southern themes, attitudes, and atmosphere to create his own world and place--the mythical Yoknapatawpha County--peopled with quintessential Southerners such as the Compsons, Sartorises, Snopes, and McCaslins. Indeed, to a degree perhaps unmatched by any other major twentieth-century novelist, Faulkner remained at home and explored his own region--the history and culture and people of the South. Now, in William Faulkner and Southern History, one of America's most acclaimed historians of the South, Joel Williamson, weaves together a perceptive biography of Faulkner himself, an astute analysis of his works, and a revealing history of Faulkner's ancestors in Mississippi--a family history that becomes, in Williamson's skilled hands, a vivid portrait of Southern culture itself. Williamson provides an insightful look at Faulkner's ancestors, a group sketch so brilliant that the family comes alive almost as vividly as in Faulkner's own fiction. Indeed, his ancestors often outstrip his characters in their colorful and bizarre nature. Williamson has made several discoveries: the Falkners (William was the first to spell it "Faulkner") were not planter, slaveholding "aristocrats"; Confederate Colonel Falkner was not an unalloyed hero, and he probably sired, protected, and educated a mulatto daughter who married into America's mulatto elite; Faulkner's maternal grandfather Charlie Butler stole the town's money and disappeared in the winter of 1887-1888, never to return. Equally important, Williamson uses these stories to underscore themes of race, class, economics, politics, religion, sex and violence, idealism and Romanticism--"the rainbow of elements in human culture"--that reappear in Faulkner's work. He also shows that, while Faulkner's ancestors were no ordinary people, and while he sometimes flashed a curious pride in them, Faulkner came to embrace a pervasive sense of shame concerning both his family and his culture. This he wove into his writing, especially about sex, race, class, and violence, psychic and otherwise. William Faulkner and Southern History represents an unprecedented publishing event--an eminent historian writing on a major literary figure. By revealing the deep history behind the art of the South's most celebrated writer, Williamson evokes new insights and deeper understanding, providing anyone familiar with Faulkner's great novels with a host of connections between his work, his life, and his ancestry.
Download or read book A History of Lafayette County Mississippi written by Clement John Sobotka and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rozier s History of the Early Settlement of the Mississippi Valley written by Firmin A Rozier and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...the principals. The seconds then cocked their pistols, keeping their eyes on each other and on their principals.-They had thrown up for position, when Pettis had won the choice. Everything being ready, the pistols having been loaded, cocked andprimed, and put into the hands of the principals, the words were pronounced, according to the rule of duelling--" Are you ready?" Both answered, " VVe are." The seconds then counted " one--two--three." After the word was given, both principals fired with outstretched arms. The pistols were twelve to fifteen inches in length and they lapped and struck against each other, as they were discharged. There was scarcely any chance for either to escape instant death. They both fired so simultaneously, that the people on shore heard only one report, and both men fell at the same time." This duel was characterized as one of the most desperate encounters, that had ever occurred in the Great West. Both parties were buried in St. Louis, Missouri. MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE. It was on the 29th day of April, 1825, that the steamboat " Natchez" arrived at the port at St. Louis, with brilliant banners and music, announcing the arrival of the distinguished Marquis de Lafayette, when the whole population, without regard to race, turned out to welcome this honored veteran, of the New and Old Worlds. He was accompanied by his son, and by Mr. M. Levasseur his secretary, and other distinguished persons from New Orleans. Lafayette was honored by a splendid banquet and ball, at the City Hotel. This noble and gallant friend of Washington, was received throughout the United States, with open arms, and by a brilliant series of hospitalities and public entertainments, for his...
Download or read book History of Lafayette County Wisconsin written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Lafayette County Wisconsin written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Settlers of Lafayette County and Their Descendants written by Cosette Lewis Sessions and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are stories about the settling of and growing up in the swamps and hammocks of Lafayette County, Florida. They cover hardships of the Civil War and the Great Depression.
Download or read book Talking About William Faulkner written by Sally Wolff and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1970s and 1980s, Sally Wolff and Floyd C. Watkins, both of Emory University, took students of southern literature to Lafayette County, Mississippi, to explore the region where William Faulkner lived. They visited Faulkner’s home, Rowan Oak, in Oxford, Mississippi; trekked around the countryside; and met people who were the prototypes for some of his characters. During these excursions, they discovered firsthand how profoundly Faulkner’s family, community, and region imprinted themselves on his imagination and then both shaped and enriched his work. Their primary guide was Jimmy Faulkner, who was once described by his famous uncle as “the only person who likes me for what I am.” Like his uncle, Jimmy is a born storyteller, and his recollections provide profound as well as intimate details about Faulkner as author, father, member of the unusual Faulkner clan, and resident of the model for what may be the most famous county in American literature. In these interviews, and in the forty-three splendid black-and-white photographs that accompany them, we move through Faulkner’s home territory and encounter the sources of his sense of place and its past: antebellum Rowan Oak, with its scuppernong vines and outside kitchen; old plantation homes and dogtrot houses; narrow one-lane bridges and creeks with Indian names; country churches and cemeteries. Jimmy’s comments often link specific sites with particular episodes or settings in Faulkner’s works, and his humorous stories sometimes mingle fact with fiction. Two colorful local personalities who knew Faulkner—Pearle Galloway, proprietor of a general store near Oxford for over thirty years, and Motee Daniel, owner of various enterprises, including a roadhouse, a general store, and a bootlegging operation—also tell tales about him. Galloway and Daniel provide, in turn, fascinating glimpses of the kind of people who intrigued Faulkner and about whom he wrote. While his work was most certainly influenced by his surroundings, Faulkner, through his stories and novels, likewise transformed the memories, perceptions, and interpretations of his family, his community, and his readers. Talking About William Faulkner deepens our knowledge of Faulkner’s everyday life and our understanding of the world in which he lived and of which he wrote.
Download or read book Brown William and Margaret Peggy Flemming Descendants of especially No 50 Col Joseph Brown 1772 1868 the Principle Source of Our Early Genealogy written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Brown (1687-1757) married Margaret Fleming before 1720, and immigrated about 1745 from Ireland to Pennsylvania, later moving to Virginia, and finally settling in Rowan County, North Carolina. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Michigan, Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas and elsewhere.
Download or read book Rozier s History of the Early Settlement of the Mississippi Valley written by Firmin A. Rozier and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Faulkner s County written by Don Harrison Doyle and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of Lafayette County, Mississippi, uses William Faulkner's rich fictional portrait of a place and its people to illuminate the past. From the arrival of Europeans in Chickasaw Indian territory in 1540 to Faulkner's death in 1962, Doyle chronicles more than four centuries of local history. 27 illustrations. 3 maps.
Download or read book Early Settlers of Mississippi as Taken from Land Claims in the Mississippi Territory written by Walter Lowrie and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 14 Letters to a Friend the Story of the Wartime Ordeal of Capt De Witt Clinton Fort C S A written by and published by Laurier B. McDonald. This book was released on with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Genealogy and History of the Friday Families from Switzerland Colonial and Southern America 1535 2003 written by J. S. Friday and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the mid 1730's the Frydig's/Fridig's left Switzerland ... Two families arrived in South Carolina in 1735 ... This book will document the early settlers in South Carolina and follow [the Friday name] to Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma and California."--Introduction.
Download or read book Mississippi Pioneers Stories of the Early 1800 s written by DeAnn E. Upton and published by . This book was released on 2004-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-fiction. A compilation of oral-history stories. Over one hundred stories about the first white settlers to set foot in Simpson County, Mississippi. Immensely interesting, sometimes humorous stories of the world of the pioneers where panthers, rattlesnakes, bears, and Indians were the order of the day. You need not be from Mississippi to enjoy these stories---they are so good, you won't be able to put the book down. The Mississippi pioneers are representative of the pioneers in many of the states that were just beginning to be populated at the time. According to many of these stories, the south was known then as "The Great Western Frontier". There is an index of each and every name that occurs within the text for anyone who is interested in researching geneology. All are listed, including slaves and Native Americans. Large font, E-Z read.
