Title: Delta empire : Lee Wilson and the transformation of agriculture in the new South /
Authors: Whayne, Jeannie M.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Wilson, Lee,; Farmers Arkansas Mississippi County Biography.; Plantation owners Arkansas Mississippi County Biography.; Businessmen Arkansas Mississippi County Biography.; Agriculture Arkansas Mississippi County History.; Plantations Arkansas Mississippi County History.; Plantation life Arkansas Mississippi County History.; Social change Arkansas Mississippi County History.; Mississippi County (Ark.) History.; Mississippi County (Ark.) Biography.
Contents: The shaping of the land -- The making of the man -- A river of woe : reshaping the land -- A new South entrepreneur in the progressive era -- Building it of brick and hollow tile -- "The wind have changed" : the flood of 1927 -- "Get hard and raise hell" -- Changing of the guard -- The return of the "class boy" -- Appendix: Tables.