By Ann R. Hammons
ISBN-10: 0585278970
ISBN-13: 9780585278971
ISBN-10: 0878055681
ISBN-13: 9780878055685
The rollicking heritage of a dreaded real-life determine within the folklore of the Mississippi backwoods because of the topic of this interesting ebook, Sullivan's hole, a possible idyllic valley in south Mississippi, won its rightful place one of the infamous position names in American folklore. To the citizenry within the hamlets of Sullivan's hole Wild invoice Sullivan used to be the fearsome neighborhood rascal whose bent for pranks, jokes, and chicanery generally verged at the murderous. To tourists his identify encouraged a dangerous dread of an opportunity assembly with him on a lonely path. Wild Bill's love of liquor and his bounding out and in of hassle decorated his darkly checkered recognition. For the annals of folklore he's leading fabric. the following for the 1st time in paperback is the tale of this nineteenth-century Mississippi maverick, as instructed by means of his great-granddaughter. She recounts tales of his best-known "pranks"-such as stripping a Bible peddler bare and hitching him all day to a plow, and she or he places a plausible face at the legend of untamed Bill's having killed fifty males (or extra, because the tale proliferates). What reader of this publication may perhaps fail to think that no tourist desired to be passing via Sullivan's hole after sunset?
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The two fighters would go get a drink while another of his sons would 5 William Sartor, "Sullivan's Hollow: Meanest Valley in America," Life, October 2, 1967, p. 10. Page 25 take on another fighter. This kind of entertainment would go on for a week or so, with Thomas intervening if it appeared that either of the fighters was going to be seriously hurt. Stories say that Thomas Sullivan had extensive landholdings in Smith County, and that as his children married, he gave each of them 160 acres.
About 1772, Thomas Bassett, a British loyalist, had migrated to this area from near Augusta, Georgia, to escape persecution from American patriots. In 1776, he had received from King George III a grant of 750 acres on the west side of the Tombigbee River, where he established a plantation. About 1780, he was murdered by Indians near a creek that today bears his name. In 1785, a treaty was made with the Choctaw Nation at the Indian Congress held in Mobile that allowed settlements to be made on the western side of the Tombigbee River.
Howell's manuscript describes Sullivan's move to Smith County: Thomas and his wife, traveling in an ox wagon, stopped on the Big Buoy River [located south of present day Sullivan's Hollow in Covington County], cleared a patch of land, erected a small log house, and raised corn, tobacco, and vegetables. Their chief support was drawn from the woods and streams by hunting and fishing. Game such as deer, turkey, bear, and smaller game were found in abundance around their settlement. A traveler one day chanced into the settlement.