Stone County, Arkansas, 1880
Author : Stone County Historical Society (Ark.)
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Page : 73 pages
File Size : 21,2 MB
Release : 197?
Category : Registers of births, etc
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Author : Stone County Historical Society (Ark.)
Publisher :
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 21,2 MB
Release : 197?
Category : Registers of births, etc
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Author : Freda Massey
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Page : 156 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Stone County (Ark.)
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Page : 73 pages
File Size : 12,89 MB
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Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Arkansas
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Author : Brooks Blevins
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : 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.
Author : Freda Cruse Phillips
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Page : 202 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 2009-10
Category : Stone County (Ark.)
ISBN : 9780984211104
Author : Fox Community Services Committee (Fox, Ark.). Book Committee
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Page : 378 pages
File Size : 29,62 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fox (Ark.)
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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 1579 pages
File Size : 15,65 MB
Release : 2002-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1681621754
The history of the community and people of Greene County, Arkansas.
Author : Dorothy (Greenway) Gayler
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Page : 161 pages
File Size : 36,76 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Arkansas
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Author : Swannee Bennett
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 21,21 MB
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1682261441
Volume I. Quilts and textiles, Ceramics, Silver, Weaponry, Furniture, Vernacular architecture, Native American art -- volume II. Photography, Fine art.