This novel holds dialogue with a years-long blur of reading, listening, watching, reflecting. A very few sources of note:
The Mississippi Encyclopedia, eds. Ted Ownby, Charles Reagan Wilson, Ann Abadie, Odie Lindsey, James G. Thomas Jr. (University Press of Mississippi, 2017).
Dixie’s Daughters by Karen L. Cox (University Press of Florida, 2003).
Making War at Fort Hood by Kenneth T. MacLeish (Princeton University Press, 2013).
Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi by John Dittmer (University of Illinois Press, 1995).
Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World by Robbie Ethridge (UNC Press, 2004).
The Strawberry Plains Oral History Project, 2003–2005, interviews recorded by Brooke Butler, Phil Ensley, Robert Hawkins, and Allison Trappenstedt (University of Southern Mississippi, Joseph Anderson Cook Library Archives).
“Some Go Home” by Jerry Jeff Walker, Bein’ Free (ATCO Records, 1970).