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The counties of Issequena and Washington are adjacent to the Mississippi River and each other. Mount Holly plantation is in Washington County, in the unincorporated town of Foote. Built before the Civil War, it was acquired by the Foote family in the 1880s. Issequena, the poorest county by capita in the U.S., is probably the location of the hunting camps in Faulkner's "Delta Autumn" and "Race at Morning." The first two photos were taken during the Depression by Dorothea Lange. The last two were made 25 years later by Martin J. Dain. In his "Explanatory Notes" at the end of his book of photographs, Faulkner's County: Yoknapatawpha, he writes that he and a group of men from Oxford traveled "165 miles into the Delta" on this hunting trip.
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