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Organization And Early History Of Yalobusha County, Hiram Percy Hathorn

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Yalobusha County was created by an act of the Mississippi State Legislature on December 23, 1833, from territory ceded to the United States Government by the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians. The county was a perfect square containing twenty-five townships or nine hundred square miles.

The early towns were Hendersonville, Grenada, Preston, Coffeeville, Troy, Sardinia, Graysport and Oakland. These places had their beginning between 1830 and 1838. Coffeeville oits origin to the fact that it was chosen as the county seat; Grenada, Troy and Graysport, on the river, were used as shipping sites; Hendersonville, Sardinia, Oakland and Preston were inland towns …

The Historical Development Of Girard, Kansas, And Its Community, Willis Ernest Lamson

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Kansas is rich in historic facts. Her traditions may be traced to the Spanish conquest of the native Indians of Mexico. In the sixteenth century Coronado came northward seeking for the mythical kingdom of Quivera, and claimed it by the right of conquest and discovery as a part of the kingdom of Spain. France nearly two centuries later sent out explorers who explored the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and declared at the mouth of each stream that all the land drained by these rivers and their tributaries belonged to the Kingdom of France. During the early part of the nineteenth …

A History Of The Progressive Party In Kansas, George H. Callis

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This thesis has been written with the aim of making it a teaching instrument in the social sciences. An attempt has been made to cover the span of American History treating briefly the liberalizing forces. The author has used much of the text of the thesis in his classes in American History, Kansas History, World History, American Problems, Civics, Economics, and Sociology. The narrative of the development of the liberal forces in government adds much to the vividness of teaching because of its setting. It is recent enough in point of time to belong to the present era and helps …

Depressions, S Joseph Millet

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We are facing at the present time one of the greatest depression known in the history of depressions. In order to relieve us of the terrible chaotic condition, the leading economists of the world are presenting many methods which they think will solve the problem. We are told many times in our newspapers and periodicals that things will come out alright in the long run. Well now, to understand precisely what this means, we would have to distinguish between society as a whole and the individuals who make up society.

Congressional Investigation Of The Ku Klux Klan In North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, And Mississippi, Ernest C. Keith

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