Arkansas Classics – serie
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Rude Pursuits and Rugged Peaks
Schoolcraft's Ozark Journal, 1818-1819
Av H. Schoolcraft, Milton D. Rafferty
Häftad, 1996
427 kr
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In the winter of 1818, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft set out from Potosi, Missouri, to document lead mines in the interior of the Ozarks. Intending only to make his fortune by publishing an account of the area's mineral resources, he became the first skilled observer to witness and record frontier life in …
White River Chronicles of C.S.Turnbo
Man and Wildlife on the Ozarks Frontier
Av S.C. Turnbo
Häftad, 1999
532 kr
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This highly readable folklore collection highlights the most representative and evocative tales in the twenty-five hundred pages of backwoods stories collected by Silas Tunbo toward the end of the last century. Turnbo and his informants, antebellum Ozarks natives, believed that the legends of the …
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 …
White River Chronicles of C.S.Turnbo
Man and Wildlife on the Ozarks Frontier
Av S.C. Turnbo
Inbunden, 1994
410 kr
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Arkansas
Häftad, 1995
367 kr
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Like a well-planned time capsule, Arkansas is a fascinating picture of the state’s evolution: from a wilderness explored by Hernando de Soto to a rowdy and often lawless frontier, a partner in the shameful dislocation of Native Americans, a state in the Confederacy, a source of homegrown populists, …
Simpkinsville and Vicinity
Arkansas Stories of Ruth McEnery Stuart
Häftad, 1999
281 kr
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For nearly thirty years, from the first story by Ruth McEnery Stuart published in the New Princeton Magazine in 1888 until her death in 1917, readers throughout the United States knew her stories of life in Simpkinsville, an imaginary village in southwest Arkansas. Besides their importance in the …
Negro Slavery in Arkansas
Häftad, 2000
295 kr
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Long out of print and found only in rare-book stores, it is now available to a contemporary audience with this new paperback edition.When slavery was abolished by the Emancipation Proclamation, there were slaves in every county of the state, and almost half the population was directly involved in …
Cavorting on the Devil's Fork
The Pete Whetstone Letters of C. F. M. Noland
Häftad, 2006
313 kr
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By the 1840s, American literature tradition had become fascinated with the frontier. The rural folk humor of the ""Devil's Fork"" letters that a young Charles Fenton Mercer Noland (1810-1858) of central Arkansas began writing in 1837 was something the country wanted. His pieces were published …
