Yazoo

A graveside service with full military rites was held Aug. 10 at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Yazoo County.

Heroes or Villains? 2010

Instead he shows how he tried to find his own way, first in Yazoo City, then at the University of Texas, and finally in Manhattan.

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This case came out of the so-called Yazoo land scandals in Georgia.

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

This case came out of the so-called Yazoo land scandals in Georgia.

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

This case came out of the so-called Yazoo land scandals in Georgia.

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

In the 1790s, the Georgia legislature had sold a 35-million-acre tract of frontier called the Yazoo country to northern land speculators every member of the legislature but one received a kickback.

America's First Dynasty Richard Brookhiser 2002

Throughout the 1790s, the old Southwest—what are now the states of Alabama and Mississippi—was a wild tract known as the Yazoo country, inhabited by Indians, coveted by Spain, and ruled, to the extent it was ruled at all, by characters like James McGillivray, a half-breed Scottish-Cherokee chieftain.

Alexander Hamilton, American Richard Brookhiser 1999

Throughout the 1790s, the old Southwest—what are now the states of Alabama and Mississippi—was a wild tract known as the Yazoo country, inhabited by Indians, coveted by Spain, and ruled, to the extent it was ruled at all, by characters like James McGillivray, a half-breed Scottish-Cherokee chieftain.

Alexander Hamilton, American Richard Brookhiser 1999

At Fredericksburg, where he spent two nights and a day, he had a second disquieting experience: John Lewis, the only surviving son of Fielding Lewis by his first marriage, told of a recent interview with Patrick Henry, who made no secret of his financial interest in the so-called Yazoo Company.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

At Fredericksburg, where he spent two nights and a day, he had a second disquieting experience: John Lewis, the only surviving son of Fielding Lewis by his first marriage, told of a recent interview with Patrick Henry, who made no secret of his financial interest in the so-called Yazoo Company.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968