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NatchezVicksburg

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Narrated by The Drifter 116 km · about 77 min · 16 stories

Up the Mississippi from the Trace: Natchez Under-the-Hill's rough riverfront, the cotton kingdom's wealth and its foundation, the ruined columns of Windsor, and the siege of Vicksburg — forty-seven days of caves, shelling, and surrender on the Fourth of July.

The stories

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  1. 1
    Natchez, Mississippi

    Natchez African American History Museum

  2. 2
    Natchez, Mississippi

    The Life of Natchez Under-the-Hill

  3. 3
    Natchez, Mississippi

    The Devil's Backbone

  4. 4
    Fayette, Mississippi

    The Natchez Cotton Kingdom

  5. 5
    Fayette, Mississippi

    The Rise and Fall of Jefferson College Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  6. 6
    Fayette, Mississippi

    The Rise and Fall of Jefferson College Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  7. 7
    Lorman, Mississippi

    The Rise and Fall of Jefferson College Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  8. 8
    Lorman, Mississippi

    The Columns of Windsor Plantation

  9. 9
    Port Gibson, Mississippi

    The Battle of Port Gibson

  10. 10
    Port Gibson, Mississippi

    PGA Tour Pioneer Pete Brown

  11. 11
    Port Gibson, Mississippi

    The Siege of Vicksburg Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  12. 12
    Vicksburg, Mississippi

    The Siege of Vicksburg Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  13. 13
    Vicksburg, Mississippi

    The Siege of Vicksburg Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  14. 14
    Vicksburg, Mississippi

    The Failed Engineering of Grant's Canal

  15. 15
    Vicksburg, Mississippi

    The Layers of McRaven House

  16. 16
    Vicksburg, Mississippi

    The Old Warren County Courthouse

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Where the stories come from

Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.