, A. On sport hunting on the St. Johns, see James J. Miller,An Environmental His-
toryof Northeast Florida(Gainesville: University Press of Florida, ), esp. –, .
. On ‘‘No fool, no fun,’’ see Rawlings to Maxwell E. Perkins, March , in
Selected Letters, –. ‘‘Hyacinth Drift’’ first appeared inScribner’s Magazinein Sep-
tember , then inCross Creek,–.
. See Linda Flowers,Throwed Away: Failures of Progress in Eastern North Carolina
(Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, ); Deborah Fink,Cutting into the Meat-
packing Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest(Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, ); Richard P. Horwitz,HogTies: Pigs, Manure, and Mortality in Ameri-
can Culture(New York: St. Martin’s Press, ); and Rodney Barker,And the Waters
Turned to Blood(New York: Simon and Schuster, ).
. Alonzo Thomas Dill,Chesapeake, Pioneer Papermaker: A History of the Company
and Its Community(Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, ); Dill,York River
Yesterdays: A Pictorial History(Norfolk/Virginia Beach: Donning, ), which is largely
an illustrated history of West Point, including its early fire department.
. On Tupelo, Memphis, andFlaming Star, see Peter Guralnick,Last Train to Mem-
phis: The Rise of Elvis Presley(Boston: Little, Brown, ), –, and Guralnick,Care-
less Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley(Boston: Little, Brown, ), –, on the
Presleys’ lack of prejudice. For all his detail, Guralnick does not discuss Elvis’s reputed
Cherokee ancestry. See instead Elaine Dundy,Elvis and Gladys(New York: Macmillan,
), xv, –. On ‘‘half-breeds’’ and the paradox of status, see Theda Perdue,‘‘Mixed
Blood’’ Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South(Athens: University of Georgia
Press, ).
. A useful summary of archaeological and other research is Jay K. Johnson, ‘‘The
Chickasaws,’’ inIndians of the Greater Southeast: Historical Archaeology and Ethnohis-
tory, ed. Bonnie G. McEwan (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, ), –.
An apparently very large cache of Chickasaw artifacts, privately held in Tupelo, has
recently been collected and returned to the tribe in Oklahoma, according to Richard
Green, official historian of the Chickasaws, speaking at the Southern Historical Asso-
ciation annual meeting in Memphis, November .
. On the evolution of agriculture among Eastern Woodland peoples of the Chesa-
peake region, see Helen C. Rountree,The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: TheirTraditional
Culture(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, ), esp. –, and James Axtell,
ed.,The Indian Peoples of Eastern America: A Documentary History of the Sexes(New York:
Oxford University Press, ), esp. –.
. Unless noted otherwise, the summary of de Soto’s adventures is derived from
Charles Hudson,Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South’s
Ancient Chiefdoms(Athens: University of Georgia Press, ).
. Quoted in typescript (p. ) of memoir of Thomas Story (the missionary),
Thomas Story Papers, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.
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