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21 produkter
Ghost of the Ozarks
Murder and Memory in the Upland South
Inbunden, 2012
1314 kr
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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 …
History of the Ozarks, Volume 3
The Ozarkers
Inbunden, 2021
410 kr
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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 cast of colorful throwbacks hostile to change. But the real Ozarks reflected a more complex reality. …
Ghost of the Ozarks
Murder and Memory in the Upland South
Häftad, 2017
289 kr
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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 …
History of the Ozarks, Volume 1 Volume 1
The Old Ozarks
Häftad, 2020
252 kr
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Winner of the Missouri History Book Award, from the State Historical Society of MissouriWinner of the Arkansiana Award, from the Arkansas Library AssociationGeologic forces raised the Ozarks. Myth enshrouds these hills. Human beings shaped them and were shaped by them. The Ozarks reflect the epic …
History of the Ozarks, Volume 2
The Conflicted Ozarks
Häftad, 2022
252 kr
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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 civilization, and secessionist and Unionist. As civil war raged across the region, neighbor turned against …
History of the Ozarks, Volume 3
The Ozarkers
Häftad, 2024
281 kr
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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 cast of colorful throwbacks hostile to change. But the real Ozarks reflected a more complex reality. …
Hill Folks
A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image
Häftad, 2002
487 kr
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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 …
Hill Folks
A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image
E-bok, 2003
535 kr
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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 …
Cattle in the Cotton Fields
A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama
E-bok, 2014
585 kr
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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 and American agricultural history Cattle raising today is the most widely practiced form of agriculture in …
Country Store: In Search of Mercantiles and Memories in the Ozarks
An article from Southern Cultures 18:4, Winter 2012
E-bok, 2012
53 kr
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The country store survives. The survivors—and there are more of them than you might imagine—are models of adaptation." This article appears in the Winter 2012 issue of Southern Cultures . The full issue is also available as an ebook. Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, …
Life in the Leatherwoods
Av John Quincy Wolf, John Quincy Wolf Snr m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
426 kr
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Life in the Leatherwoods is one of the country's most delightful childhood memoirs, penned by an Ozark native with a keen, observant eye and a gift for narrative. John Quincy Wolf's relaxed style and colorful characters resemble those of another chronicler of nineteenth-century rural life, Laura …
Arkansas/Arkansaw
How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies and Good Ol' Boys Defined a State
Häftad, 2009
315 kr
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Ozark Country
Av Otto Ernest Rayburn, Brooks Blevins
E-bok, 2021
454 kr
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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 …
Hill Folks
A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image
E-bok, 2003
535 kr
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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 …
Cattle in the Cotton Fields
A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama
Häftad, 2014
338 kr
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Cattle raising today is the most widely practiced form of agriculture in Alabama and ranks second only to the poultry industry in terms of revenue. Brooks Blevins not only relates the development and importance of the industry to agricultural practices but also presents it as an integral component …
Back Yonder
An Ozark Chronicle
Av Charles Wayman. Hogue, Brooks Blevins
Häftad, 2016
304 kr
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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 …
Lyon College, 1872-2002
The Perseverance and Promise of an Arkansas College
Inbunden, 2003
468 kr
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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, and of the idea of the promise of a better day to come.
Arkansas/Arkansaw
How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol' Boys Defined a State
Inbunden, 2009
382 kr
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Who are you calling a hillbilly? What do Scott Joplin, John Grisham, General 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, …
Ozark Country
Av Otto Ernest Rayburn, Brooks Blevins
Häftad, 2021
329 kr
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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 …
Up South in the Ozarks
Dispatches from the Margins
Inbunden, 2023
458 kr
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The Ozarks is a place that defies easy categorization. Sprawling across much of Missouri and Arkansas and smaller parts of Oklahoma and Kansas, it is caught on the margins of America’s larger cultural regions: part southern, part midwestern, and maybe even a little bit western. For generations …
