Ozark Memories
Title | Ozark Memories PDF eBook |
Author | Preston Phillip Johnson |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Ozark Mountains |
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Ozark Memories
Title | Ozark Memories PDF eBook |
Author | Mabel Rastall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 50 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Ozark Mountains |
ISBN |
Ozark memories
Title | Ozark memories PDF eBook |
Author | Rainer H. Schmeissner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 70 |
Release | 2009 |
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Ozark Memories
Title | Ozark Memories PDF eBook |
Author | Maude Jackson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1945 |
Genre | Ozark Mountains |
ISBN |
Ghost of the Ozarks
Title | Ghost of the Ozarks PDF eBook |
Author | Brooks Blevins |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2012-03-15 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 0252094115 |
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.
Ozark Memories
Title | Ozark Memories PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela S. Prier |
Publisher | |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Missouri |
ISBN | 9780976222507 |
The Country Store: In Search of Mercantiles and Memories in the Ozarks
Title | The Country Store: In Search of Mercantiles and Memories in the Ozarks PDF eBook |
Author | Brooks Blevins |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 39 |
Release | 2012-11-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469608421 |
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, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for the Study of the American South.