Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE: Environmental History and the Yazoo-Mississippi Floodplain -- CHAPTER TWO: A True Ecological Complex -- CHAPTER THREE: Enter Homo sapiens -- CHAPTER FOUR: The Creation of a Cotton Kingdom -- CHAPTER FIVE: Taming the Rivers -- CHAPTER SIX: Bounties of the Bottomland -- CHAPTER SEVEN: A Transformed Landscape -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.