White Gold

By Gerard Helferich,  Photography by John Montfort Jones
A giant cotton picker in one of the fields of farmers Heath and Keath Killebrew, west of Yazoo City, MS, early October 2013.
A giant cotton picker in one of the fields of farmers Heath and Keath Killebrew, west of Yazoo City, MS, early October 2013.

Can Cotton Make a Comeback in the Land Where It Was Once King?

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Issue: Spring 2014 / Volume 90/2
Published: March 31, 2014
Gerard Helferich

Gerard Helferich is the author of High Cotton: Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta (Counterpoint, 2008), which received the 2008 Author’s Award for nonfiction from the Mississippi Library Association. His other books include Theodore Roosevelt and the Assassin: Madness, Vengeance, and the Campaign of 1912 (Lyons, 2013), Stone of...

John Montfort Jones

John Montfort Jones’s photography of the Mississippi Delta has been featured in Delta magazine and in the book The Delta: Landscapes, Legends, and Legacies of Mississippi’s Most Storied Region, which won a gold medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards. 

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