A lively account from 1967 of the growth of a Mississippi seaport town from its humble beginnings to its emergence as a significant port on the Gulf of Mexico. This story begins with tales of the first Biloxi and Pascagoula Indians, then comes the Frenchmen, and finally those English. Here is a panaramic view of a sleepy little 
fishing town inhabited by colorful politicians, rumrunners, bootleggers, pirates and fishermen. Included are tales of buried treasure, lawsuits, train wrecks, bank robberies, and hurricanes in this sweeping narrative.

 

“... the Copeland gang had stolen more money that they could safely handle. Hastily, in November 1843, they stored thirty thousand dollars in three wooden kegs and buried them in the swamp. Soon after, they got jumpy, dug up the treasure and carried it across the Pascagoula River where they buried it again. Only one map was made and it was entrusted to James Copeland...”

“On the afternoon of June 19, 1921 Pascagoulans were still in their Sunday clothes. Suddenly, the dreaded cry “Fire!” Four months before, the residents had already faced a terrible blaze downtown. A few brave citizens grabbed some water buckets and frantically began dousing the flames. But it was too late.”

• Author: Jay Higginbotham
• ISBN: 978-1-68593-200-8
• 214 pages (black and white photography)
• Hardcover 
• 6x9
• First Printing 1979, Reprinted 2024