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  • Missouri Memories, 1934–1947

    by Thomas H. Olbricht, Brooks Blevins ...
    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 of Ozark terrain, social life, and culture, and often situates them in their historical setting. He writes with multifaceted concretion regarding the influence of his mother, father, and his extended family, which ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hill Folks

    A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image

    by Brooks Blevins ...
    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 ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1

    The Old Ozarks

    by Brooks Blevins ...
    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 tableau of the American people—the native Osage and would-be colonial conquerors, the determined ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • A History of the Ozarks, Volume 2

    The Conflicted Ozarks

    by 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 civilization, and secessionist and Unionist. As civil war raged across the region, neighbor turned against neighbor, unleashing a generation of animus and violence that lasted long after 1865. The second volume of ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • A History of the Ozarks, Volume 3

    The Ozarkers

    by 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 cast of colorful throwbacks hostile to change. But the real Ozarks reflected a more complex reality.Brooks Blevins tells the cultural history of the Ozarks as a regional variation of an American story. As ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Up South in the Ozarks

    Dispatches from the Margins

    by Brooks Blevins ...
    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 Ozarkers have been more likely than most other Americans to live near or below the poverty line—a ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Ozark Country

    by Otto Ernest Rayburn ...
    Series series Chronicles of the Ozarks
    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 ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Arkansas/Arkansaw

    How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol’ Boys Defined a State

    by Brooks Blevins ...
    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. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie

    Scholarship, Activism, and Wayne Flynt in the Modern South

    by Gordon E. Harvey, Bailey Thompson, Andrew M Manis, Dan T. Carter, Glenn Feldman, Brooks Blevins, John Shelton Reed, Susan Y. Ashmore, Jeffrey Frederick0, DeWayne Key1, Major Richard D. Starnes2 ...
    Series series The Modern South
    Social and political history of the modern South.This collection of essays on the social and political history of the modern South consider the region’s poor, racial mores and race relations, economic opportunity, Protestant activism, political coalitions and interest groups, social justice, and progressive reform. History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie illuminates the dual role of historian and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Country Store: In Search of Mercantiles and Memories in the Ozarks

    An article from Southern Cultures 18:4, Winter 2012

    by Brooks Blevins ...
    “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 ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Southern Journeys

    Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South

    by Brooks Blevins, Margaret A. Shannon, Stephen W. Taylor, Alecia P Long, Ted Ownby III, Harvey Newman III, Daniel S. Pierce III, June Hall McCash III, J. Mark Souther III, Brenden C. Martin III, Anne Mitchell Whisnant III0, Major Richard D. Starnes2, Harvey H. Jackson III3 ...
    The first collection of its kind to examine tourism as a complicated and vital force in southern history, culture, and economicsAnyone who has seen Rock City, wandered the grounds of Graceland, hiked in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, or watched the mermaids swim at Weeki Wachee knows the southern United States offers visitors a rich variety of scenic, cultural, and leisure activities. ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Cattle in the Cotton Fields

    A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama

    by 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 and American agricultural historyCattle 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 ... Read more

    $21.59 USD