Title: Yazoo, its legends and legacies
Description: A wide ranging and informative book which is invaluable for history and genealogical research about Yazoo County as well as life in Mississippi.

The book is a compiled history of Yazoo County written for the Bicentennial in 1976, by Students under the direction and editorial control of Harriet DeCell and JoAnne Prichard.  Published first in 1976. Reprinted in 1977, 1988, 1999.  Originally published and copyright held by Yazoo Delta Press .  Includes Articles, Charts, Maps and Illustrations.  One appendix includes family provided oral and written genealogy sketches of families of the county.  It starts with the history of Indians, the Wrangles over the land.  And continues to include Organization, Life in 1838=1856, Literature and Architecture, Politics and Economic, Civil War and Reconstruction, Photographic Essay 1876-1976.  In the appendix are Maps, Treaty of Doak's Stand, Land Patents, Census Statistics, Elected Officials, Minutes of Organizations and the Family Histories.
Subjects: Genealogy, History
Places: Yazoo County (Miss.)
Time periods: History and Life in the South, Mississippi and Yazoo County specifically.