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      A History of the Ozarks, Volume 3

      Brooks Blevins

      Between the world wars, America embraced an image of the Ozarks as a remote land of hills and hollers. The popular imagination stereotyped Ozarkers as ridge runners, hillbillies, and pioneers-a…

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      Cattle in the Cotton Fields: A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama

      Brooks Blevins

      This first history of cattle raising in a southern state documents the development of the industry within Alabama from colonial times to the present within the broader contexts of southern…

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      Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South

      Brooks Blevins

      A grisly killing and a walking dead man in the Arkansas hills

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      Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South

      Brooks Blevins

      A grisly killing and a walking dead man in the Arkansas hills

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      A History of the Ozarks, Volume 3: The Ozarkers

      Brooks Blevins

      Between the world wars, America embraced an image of the Ozarks as a remote land of hills and hollers. The popular imagination stereotyped Ozarkers as ridge runners, hillbillies, and pioneers-a…

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      Up South in the Ozarks: Dispatches from the Margins

      Brooks Blevins

      Part historical and part journalistic, Brooks Blevins's essays combine the sensibilities of a historian with the insights of someone raised in rural hill country. His stories of marginalized characters often…

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      Arkansas/Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies and Good Ol’ Boys Defined a State

      Brooks Blevins

      Who are you calling a hillbilly? What do Scott Joplin, John Grisham, General Douglas MacArthur, Maya Angelou, Helen Gurley Brown, Johnny Cash, Alan Ladd, and Sonny Boy Williamson have in…

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      Hill Folks: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image

      Brooks Blevins

      Here, Blevins sketches a portrait of a place far more nuanced than the backward and deliberately unprogressive region depicted in stereotype. He covers a wide range of Ozark social life…

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      A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1: The Old Ozarks

      Brooks Blevins

      Winner of the Missouri History Book Award, from the State Historical Society of Missouri
      Winner of the Arkansiana Award, from the Arkansas Library Association

      The Ozarks reflect the epic tableau…

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      A History of the Ozarks, Volume 2: The Conflicted Ozarks

      Brooks Blevins

      The Ozarks of the mid-1800s was a land of divisions. The uplands and its people inhabited a geographic and cultural borderland straddling Midwest and west, North and South, frontier and…

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      Lyon College 1872-2002: The Perseverance and Promise of an Arkansas College

      Brooks Blevins

      This is a history in microcosm of the American small college. It is a story of the power of persistence of the educational ideal, of the communal will to survive…

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      Ozark Country

      Otto Ernest Rayburn

      Published just days before America’s entry into World War II, Ozark Country is Otto Ernest Rayburn’s love letter to his adopted region. Rayburn’s colourful tour takes readers from the fictional…

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      Back Yonder: An Ozark Chronicle

      Charles Wayman. Hogue

      Originally released in 1932, Wayman Hogue’s Back Yonder is an entertaining memoir of life in rural Arkansas during the decades following the Civil War. Using family legends, personal memories, and…

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      Life in the Leatherwoods

      John Quincy Wolf,John Quincy Wolf Snr

      First published in 1974, this illustrated and new edition in the ARKANSAS CLASSICS, includes additional writings of John Q. Wolf, an Ozark native, and a continuation of his autobiographical narrative…

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      History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie: Scholarship, Activism, and Wayne Flynt in the Modern South

      Brooks Blevins

      A collection of essays on the social and political history of the modern South, considering the region’s poor, racial mores and race relations, economic opportunity, Protestant activism, political coalitions and…

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      Missouri Memories, 1934-1947

      Thomas H Olbricht (McMaster Divinity College Canada)

      Thomas H. Olbricht relishes his Missouri upbringing. In this book he narrates the details of his many experiences in the 1930s and 40s. The author was interested in multiple aspects…

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      Missouri Memories, 1934-1947

      Thomas H Olbricht (McMaster Divinity College Canada)

      Thomas H. Olbricht relishes his Missouri upbringing. In this book he narrates the details of his many experiences in the 1930s and 40s. The author was interested in multiple aspects…

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