Wild Yazoo

';What would I do in Mississippi?' I asked.';What you want to and can.' He sat down again and turned toward me. ';It's all open. There's a state to be made, and there's a free hand for the fashioner. Half the available land hasn't been claimed now, and there's a new treaty afoot that'll send the Chocktaws west of the river to give the state a vast new territory.' He clenched a hand. ';That country must and will be settled, and it's better that it be done by Southerners.'