Follow Ol’ Man River just south of Memphis, Tenn. into the state of Mississippi to find Tunica County and the town of Tunica, the third-largest gambling resort area in the country. One of the nation’s poorest counties in 1986, Tunica is now home to a prosperous casino community that has flourished like cotton in the rich Mississippi Delta soil.
Explorer Hernando DeSoto discovered the area in 1541. Nearly 300 years later, the Chickasaw Indians … Continue reading →
