The Literature of the Ozarks : An Anthology.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. Beginnings to 1865: The Emergence of a Region -- Introduction: Beginnings to 1865 -- One. Hlu-ah-wah-tah" -- Finding of the Four Colors," translated by Francis La Flesche -- Two. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1821) -- from Journal of a Tour into the Interior of Missouri and Arkansas, 1818-1819 -- Three. Alphonso Wetmore (1837) -- "The Dead Husband" -- Four. Charles Fenton Mercer Noland (1839) -- "Pete Whetstone's Last Frolic" -- Five. Friedrich Gerstäcker (circa 1840) -- "In the Backwoods" -- Six. George William Featherstonhaugh (1844) -- from Excursion through the Slave States -- Part Two. 1865-1918: The Social Construction of a Regional Culture -- Introduction: 1865-1918 -- One. John Rollins Ridge (1868) -- "The Arkansas Root Doctor" -- Two. Albert Pike (1872) -- "Sunset in Arkansas" -- Three. John Monteith (1884) -- from Parson Brooks: A Plum Powerful Hard Shell -- Four. Minna Caroline Smith (1887) -- "A Camp in the Mountains of Arkansas" -- Five. Rose Emmet Young (1903) -- from Sally of Missouri -- Six. Benjamin F. Adams (1906) -- "What the Negro Must Do" -- Seven. Harold Bell Wright (1907) -- from The Shepherd of the Hills -- Part Three. 1918-1945: The Promotion of a Regional Image -- Introduction: 1918-1945 -- One. A. M. Haswell (1920) -- from A Daughter of the Ozarks -- Two. Murray Sheehan (1927) -- from Half-Gods -- Three. George Pool Ballard (1928) -- "Invitation" -- "A Broken Promise" -- Four. Ralph Alan McCanse (1931) -- from The Road to Hollister: A Hill Country Pastoral -- Five. Thames Williamson (1933) -- from The Woods Colt -- Six. Vance Randolph (1933) -- "The Chore Boy" -- Seven. Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey (1934) -- "The Hired Man's Fiddle" -- "What Is Grandpa Carrying?" -- Eight. MacKinlay Kantor (1935) -- from The Voice of Bugle Ann -- Nine. Weldon Stone (1937).

from Devil Take a Whittler -- Ten. Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni (1938) -- "Drought" -- "Shanty in the Ozarks" -- Eleven. Dennis Murphy (1941) -- "Sonnet 1" -- "Sonnet 2" -- Twelve. John Gould Fletcher (1941) -- "Thunderstorm in the Ozarks" -- "Hillbilly Philosophy" -- Thirteen. Irene Carlisle (1945) -- "Sonnets to Strength" -- Part Four. 1945-Current: The Deconstruction of a Regional Image -- Introduction: 1945-Current -- One. Constance Wagner (1950) -- from Sycamore -- Two. Robert A. Heinlein (1953) -- from Starman Jones -- Three. Wilson Rawls (1961) -- from Where the Red Fern Grows -- Four. Edsel Ford (1961, 1968) -- "Return to Sunday Creek" -- "Country Store" -- Five. Charles Morrow Wilson (1969) -- "More Light" -- Six. Frank Stanford (1974) -- "Linger" -- "Place on a Grave" -- Seven. Miller Williams (1983) -- "Main Street" -- "The Story" -- Eight. Donald Harington (1988) -- "Finding the Place, Naming the Place" -- Nine. Katie Estill (2007) -- from Dahlia's Gone -- Ten. Michael Mahoney (2008) -- from Breathe Deep, Brother -- Eleven. Steve Wiegenstein (2012) -- from Slant of Light -- Twelve. Steve Yates (2013) -- "Starfall" -- Thirteen. Daniel Woodrell (2013) -- from The Maid's Version -- Fourteen. Christopher Crabtree -- For a Better Life" -- "Romance" -- Fifteen. C. D. Albin (2016) -- "Hard Toward Home" -- "Cicero Jack Considers the Cougar's Return" -- Notes.

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