Arkansas/Arkansaw

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Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 161075042X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Arkansas/Arkansaw by : Brooks Blevins

Download or read book Arkansas/Arkansaw written by Brooks Blevins and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Scott Joplin, John Grisham, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Maya Angelou, Brooks Robinson, Helen Gurley Brown, Johnny Cash, Alan Ladd, and Sonny Boy Williamson have in common? They’re all Arkansans. What do hillbillies, rednecks, slow trains, bare feet, moonshine, and double-wides have in common? For many in America these represent Arkansas more than any Arkansas success stories do. In 1931 H. L. Mencken described AR (not AK, folks) as the “apex of moronia.” While, in 1942 a Time magazine article said Arkansas had “developed a mass inferiority complex unique in American history.” Arkansas/Arkansaw is the first book to explain how Arkansas’s image began and how the popular culture stereotypes have been perpetuated and altered through succeeding generations. Brooks Blevins argues that the image has not always been a bad one. He discusses travel accounts, literature, radio programs, movies, and television shows that give a very positive image of the Natural State. From territorial accounts of the Creole inhabitants of the Mississippi River Valley to national derision of the state’s triple-wide governor’s mansion to Li’l Abner, the Beverly Hillbillies, and Slingblade, Blevins leads readers on an entertaining and insightful tour through more than two centuries of the idea of Arkansas. One discovers along the way how one state becomes simultaneously a punch line and a source of admiration for progressives and social critics alike.

The Life & Adventures of an Arkansaw Doctor (c)

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Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610754170
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (541 download)

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Book Synopsis The Life & Adventures of an Arkansaw Doctor (c) by : David Rattlehead

Download or read book The Life & Adventures of an Arkansaw Doctor (c) written by David Rattlehead and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intro -- Contents -- Editors Introduction -- Preface to the 1851 Edition -- Chapter I.A Lumping Business -- Chapter II. Starting Off Of the Right Foot -- Chapter III. Spontaneous Ebullition in a Drunkard -- Chapter IV. The Resurrection, or How To Take Up a Negro -- Chapter V. Busting a Dog and Carving a Turkey -- Chapter VI. The Way To Keep Folks From Marrying -- Chapter VII. A Death-Bed Scene -- Chapter VIII. A New Plan for Catching a Rogue -- Chapter IX. Bloodshed and Hysterics -- Chapter X. Aqua Fortis and Croton Oil, or Taking the Wrong Medicine -- Chapter XI. Three Scrapes In One Night -- Chapter XII. A Thunder Storm, and a Night in the Woods -- Chapter XIII. Making a Hole in the Wrong Place -- Chapter XIV. A Fishing Party, A Ghost, and Suicide -- Chapter XV. Taken Captive By Indians -- Chapter XVI. The Man With a Snake Disease -- Chapter XVII. Cutting Up a Negro Alive -- Chapter XVIII. A Fight With Wolves -- Chapter XIX. How To Cure Deafness In Three Hours -- Chapter XX. Rattlehead's Farewell Address -- Notes

Three Years in Arkansaw [sic]

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Total Pages : 132 pages
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Book Synopsis Three Years in Arkansaw [sic] by : Marion Hughes

Download or read book Three Years in Arkansaw [sic] written by Marion Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Big Bear of Arkansas

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Total Pages : 202 pages
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Book Synopsis The Big Bear of Arkansas by : William Trotter Porter

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Journal of a Tour Into the Interior of Missouri and Arkansaw

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Total Pages : 116 pages
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Book Synopsis Journal of a Tour Into the Interior of Missouri and Arkansaw by : Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Download or read book Journal of a Tour Into the Interior of Missouri and Arkansaw written by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Arkansas Folklore Sourcebook (c)

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Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610750332
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Arkansas Folklore Sourcebook (c) by : William M. Clements

Download or read book Arkansas Folklore Sourcebook (c) written by William M. Clements and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arkansas's rich folklore tradition is treated in this collection of eight essays covering the history of folklore research in the state, traditional songs and music, "tall tales," folk architecture, traditional foods and their preparation, superstitions and beliefs, and festivals and celebrations. Includes extensive bibliographies of reference works, and audio and video recordings.

Arkansas Travelers

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Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610756657
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Arkansas Travelers by : Andrew J. Milson

Download or read book Arkansas Travelers written by Andrew J. Milson and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2019-06-22 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2020 J.G. Ragsdale Book Award from the Arkansas Historical Association “I reckon stranger you have not been used much to traveling in the woods,” a hunter remarked to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft as he trekked through the Ozark backcountry in late 1818. The ensuing exchange is one of many compelling encounters between Arkansas travelers and settlers depicted in Arkansas Travelers: Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804–1834. This book is the first to integrate the stories of four travelers who explored Arkansas during the transformative period between the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and statehood in 1836: William Dunbar, Thomas Nuttall, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, and George William Featherstonhaugh. In addition to gathering their tales of treacherous rivers, drunken scoundrels, and repulsive food, historian and geographer Andrew J. Milson explores the impact such travel narratives have had on geographical understandings of Arkansas places. Using the language in each traveler’s narrative, Milson suggests, and the book includes, new maps that trace these perceptions, illustrating not just the lands traversed, but the way travelers experienced and perceived place. By taking a geographical approach to the history of these spaces, Arkansas Travelers offers a deeper understanding—a deeper map—of Arkansas.

Ghost of the Ozarks

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252094115
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Ghost of the Ozarks by : Brooks Blevins

Download or read book Ghost of the Ozarks written by Brooks Blevins and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1929, in a remote county of the Arkansas Ozarks, the gruesome murder of harmonica-playing drifter Connie Franklin and the brutal rape of his teenaged fiancée captured the attention of a nation on the cusp of the Great Depression. National press from coast to coast ran stories of the sensational exploits of night-riding moonshiners, powerful "Barons of the Hills," and a world of feudal oppression in the isolation of the rugged Ozarks. The ensuing arrest of five local men for both crimes and the confusion and superstition surrounding the trial and conviction gave Stone County a dubious and short-lived notoriety. Closely examining how the story and its regional setting were interpreted by the media, Brooks Blevins recounts the gripping events of the murder investigation and trial, where a man claiming to be the murder victim--the "Ghost" of the Ozarks--appeared to testify. Local conditions in Stone County, which had no electricity and only one long-distance telephone line, frustrated the dozen or more reporters who found their way to the rural Ozarks, and the developments following the arrests often prompted reporters' caricatures of the region: accusations of imposture and insanity, revelations of hidden pasts and assumed names, and threats of widespread violence. Locating the past squarely within the major currents of American history, Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South paints a convincing backdrop to a story that, more than 80 years later, remains riddled with mystery.

Hill Folks

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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807860069
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis Hill Folks by : Brooks Blevins

Download or read book Hill Folks written by Brooks Blevins and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ozark region, located in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri, has long been the domain of the folklorist and the travel writer--a circumstance that has helped shroud its history in stereotype and misunderstanding. With Hill Folks, Brooks Blevins offers the first in-depth historical treatment of the Arkansas Ozarks. He traces the region's history from the early nineteenth century through the end of the twentieth century and, in the process, examines the creation and perpetuation of conflicting images of the area, mostly by non-Ozarkers. Covering a wide range of Ozark social life, Blevins examines the development of agriculture, the rise and fall of extractive industries, the settlement of the countryside and the decline of rural communities, in- and out-migration, and the emergence of the tourist industry in the region. His richly textured account demonstrates that the Arkansas Ozark region has never been as monolithic or homogenous as its chroniclers have suggested. From the earliest days of white settlement, Blevins says, distinct subregions within the area have followed their own unique patterns of historical and socioeconomic development. Hill Folks sketches a portrait of a place far more nuanced than the timeless arcadia pictured on travel brochures or the backward and deliberately unprogressive region depicted in stereotype.

Edward Palmer's Arkansaw Mounds

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Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817356126
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Edward Palmer's Arkansaw Mounds written by Edward Palmer and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1880s a massive scientific effort was launched by the Smithsonian Institution to discover who had built the prehistoric burial mounds found throughout the United States. Arkansaw Mounds tells the story of this exploration and of Edward Palmer, one of the nineteenth century’s greatest natural historians and archaeologists, who was recruited to lead the research project. Arkansas was unusually rich in prehistoric remains, especially mounds, and became a major focus of the study. Palmer and his team of researchers discovered that the mounds had been built by the ancestors of the historic North American Indians, shattering the then-popular theory that a lost non-Indian race had built them.

The Arkansaw Bear

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Publisher : Anchorage Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780876022269
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (222 download)

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Book Synopsis The Arkansaw Bear by : Aurand Harris

Download or read book The Arkansaw Bear written by Aurand Harris and published by Anchorage Press (UK). This book was released on 1980 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ozark Country

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Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1682261603
Total Pages : 281 pages
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Book Synopsis Ozark Country by : Otto Ernest Rayburn

Download or read book Ozark Country written by Otto Ernest Rayburn and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published just days before America’s entry into World War II, Ozark Country is Otto Ernest Rayburn’s love letter to his adopted region. One of several chronicles of the Ozarks that garnered national attention during the Depression and war years, when many Americans craved stories about people and places seemingly untouched by the difficulties of the times, Rayburn’s colorful tour takes readers from the fictional village of Woodville into the backcountry of a region teeming with storytellers, ballad singers, superstitions, and home remedies. Rayburn’s tales—fantastical, fun, and unapologetically romantic—portray a world that had already nearly disappeared by the time they were written. Yet Rayburn’s depiction of the Ozarks resonates with notions of the region that have persisted in the American consciousness ever since.

Back Yonder

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Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1557286981
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (572 download)

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Book Synopsis Back Yonder by : Charles Wayman Hogue

Download or read book Back Yonder written by Charles Wayman Hogue and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally released in 1932, Wayman Hogue's Back Yonder is a rare and entertaining memoir of life in rural Arkansas during the decades follow- ing the Civil War. Using family legends, personal memories, and events from Arkansas history, Hogue, like his contemporary Laura Ingalls Wilder, creatively weaves a narrative of a family making its way in rug- ged, impoverished, and sometimes violent places. From one-room schoolhouses to moonshiners, the details in Hogue's story capture the essence of a particular time and place, even as the characters reflect a universal quality that endears them to the mod- ern reader. This reissue of Back Yonder, the first in the Chronicles of the Ozarks series, features an introduction by historian Brooks Blevins that explores the life of Charles Wayman Hogue, analyzes the people and events that inspired the book, and places the volume in the context of America's discovery of the Ozarks in the years between the World Wars.

Arkansas Archaeology: Essays in Honor of Dan and Phyllis Morse (p)

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Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610750295
Total Pages : 340 pages
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Book Synopsis Arkansas Archaeology: Essays in Honor of Dan and Phyllis Morse (p) by : Robert C. Mainfort

Download or read book Arkansas Archaeology: Essays in Honor of Dan and Phyllis Morse (p) written by Robert C. Mainfort and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tall Tales of Arkansaw

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Total Pages : 472 pages
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Book Synopsis Tall Tales of Arkansaw by : James Raymond Masterson

Download or read book Tall Tales of Arkansaw written by James Raymond Masterson and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252050606
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1 by : Brooks Blevins

Download or read book A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1 written by Brooks Blevins and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geologic forces raised the Ozarks. Myth enshrouds these hills. Human beings shaped them and were shaped by them. The Ozarks reflect the epic tableau of the American people—the native Osage and would-be colonial conquerors, the determined settlers and on-the-make speculators, the endless labors of hardscrabble farmers and capitalism of visionary entrepreneurs. The Old Ozarks is the first volume of a monumental three-part history of the region and its inhabitants. Brooks Blevins begins in deep prehistory, charting how these highlands of granite, dolomite, and limestone came to exist. From there he turns to the political and economic motivations behind the eagerness of many peoples to possess the Ozarks. Blevins places these early proto-Ozarkers within the context of larger American history and the economic, social, and political forces that drove it forward. But he also tells the varied and colorful human stories that fill the region's storied past—and contribute to the powerful myths and misunderstandings that even today distort our views of the Ozarks' places and people. A sweeping history in the grand tradition, A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1: The Old Ozarks is essential reading for anyone who cares about the highland heart of America.

The Arkansaw Bear Complete

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Total Pages : 308 pages
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Book Synopsis The Arkansaw Bear Complete by : Albert Bigelow Paine

Download or read book The Arkansaw Bear Complete written by Albert Bigelow Paine and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: