Download or read book Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks written by Susan Croce Kelly and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucile Morris Upton landed her first newspaper job out West in the early 1920s, then returned home to spend half a century reporting on the Ozarks world she knew best. Having come of age just as women gained the right to vote, she took advantage of opportunities that presented themselves in a changing world. During her years as a journalist, Upton rubbed shoulders with presidents, flew with aviation pioneer Wiley Post, covered the worst single killing of US police officers in the twentieth century, wrote an acclaimed book on the vigilante group known as the Bald Knobbers, charted the growth of tourism in the Ozarks, and spearheaded a movement to preserve iconic sites of regional history. Following retirement from her newspaper job, she put her experience to good use as a member of the Springfield City Council and community activist. Told largely through Upton’s own words, this insightful biography captures the excitement of being on the front lines of newsgathering in the days when the whole world depended on newspapers to find out what was happening.
Download or read book Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks written by Susan Croce Kelly and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks is a long-overdue study of Lucile Morris Upton, one of the region's best-known reporters and local historians. A longtime reporter and columnist at Springfield Newspapers during a time when the remote Ozarks was reshaped from backcountry into a national vacation hub and the role of women in the United States shifted drastically, Upton not only reported on these rapidly changing times but also personified them in her own life. In this significant contribution to the historical research of Ozarkers' daily lives, author Susan Croce Kelly traces Upton's life, from teaching school to covering the news to governing her city and raising awareness for historic preservation, and paints a vivid picture of Ozarks culture over nearly a century of change"--
Download or read book Down in the Ozarks written by Charlene Corman May and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book True Stories of Peculiar People and Unusual Events in the Ozarks written by William Richard Draper and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book True Stories of Peculiar People and Unusual Events in the Ozarks written by William Richard Draper and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Notebook Of A Roving Newspaper Correspondent.
Download or read book Wild Stories from the Ozarks written by Vance Randolph and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Literature of the Ozarks written by Phillip Douglas Howerton and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The job of regional literature is twofold: to explore and confront the culture from within, and to help define that culture for outsiders. Taken together, the two centuries of Ozarks literature collected in this ambitious anthology do just that. The fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama presented in The Literature of the Ozarks complicate assumptions about backwoods ignorance, debunk the pastoral myth, expand on the meaning of wilderness, and position the Ozarks as a crossroads of human experience with meaningful ties to national literary movements. Among the authors presented here are an Osage priest, an early explorer from New York, a native-born farm wife, African American writers who protested attacks on their communities, a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, and an art history professor who created a fictional town and a postmodern parody of the region’s stereotypes. The Literature of the Ozarks establishes a canon as nuanced and varied as the region’s writers themselves.
Download or read book Growing Up in the Ozarks in The 1950 s written by Dennis Epperly and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Illustrated Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Keepsake Stories of the Ozarks written by Litho Printers, Cassville, Mo and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Boy with Four Eyes written by Gene Allen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time is the Great Depression.1930’s.Unmarried teen-ager chooses life for her unborn son despite many difficulties. .Cross-eyed and pudgy, he is teased a lot (hence book’s title) .Mother must give him up, elderly grandparents are only choice. They proceed to raise him through trials and errors, some serious, some humorous. Conservative farm folks from the Ozarks, they apply old fashioned rules of character which shape his life, while others in the little Ozark town keep him on the proper path. At the end of the story he is on his way to college, first person in his family to do so and is reunited with his mother in the night of her death.
Download or read book The Way We Were written by Lonnie Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty nostalgic stories of the Missouri Ozarks in the 1950s and 60s from Lonnie Whitaker's award-winning newspaper column. A time when one-room schools populated the hills, and small-town teenagers cruised Main Street listening to AM radios.
Download or read book Ozark Girl written by Helen Wasson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Wasson was born in The Ozarks in 1924, the middle of seven girls, with two younger brothers. Her Mother started teaching school at the tender age of sixteen before she was married. Her Dad was a Jack of all Trades, farmer, trapper and sawmill man. The Ozarks were a haven of variety for a child to grow up in, to wade spring branches, climb trees, roam the hills and forage for nuts, roots and wild fruits. She lived during the Great Depression. There were times of feasts and times of famine. She saw a plaque of locusts and years of drought. Life was hard, but simple and satisfying. Her formal education was mostly the Three R's. The family made their own entertainment. Evening were spent around the heating stove, singing and telling stories. Often their mother read books from the library at the county seat. This photo was taken at the old farm near Bado, MO. in 1941. This is a two-decade true story of her life and family.
Download or read book Ozark Country written by Otto Ernest Rayburn and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 from the fictional village of Woodville into the backcountry of a region teeming with storytellers, ballad singers, superstitions, and home remedies. Rayburn’s tales—fantastical, fun, and unapologetically romantic—portray a world that had already nearly disappeared by the time they were written. Yet Rayburn’s depiction of the Ozarks resonates with notions of the region that have persisted in the American consciousness ever since.
Download or read book Yesterday Today written by Catherine S. Barker and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence into pop culture of quaint and simple Ozarks Mountaineers—through the writings of Vance Randolph, Wayman Hogue, Charles Morrow Wilson, and others—was a comfort and fascination to many Americans in the early twentieth century. Disillusioned with the modernity they felt had contributed to the Great Depression, middle-class Americans admired the Ozarkers’ apparently simple way of life, which they saw as an alternative to an increasingly urban and industrial America. Catherine S. Barker's 1941 book Yesterday Today: Life in the Ozarks sought to illuminate another side of these “remnants of eighteenth-century life and culture”: poverty and despair. Drawing on her encounters and experiences as a federal social worker in the backwoods of the Ozarks in the 1930s, Barker described the mountaineers as “lovable and pathetic and needy and self-satisfied and valiant,” declaring that the virtuous and independent people of the hills deserved a better way and a more abundant life. Barker was also convinced that there were just as many contemptible facets of life in the Ozarks that needed to be replaced as there were virtues that needed to be preserved. This reprinting of Yesterday Today—edited and introduced by historian J. Blake Perkins—situates this account among the Great Depression-era chronicles of the Ozarks.
Download or read book The Courier of the Ozarks written by Byron A. Dunn and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.
Download or read book Footprints in the Ozarks written by Ellen Gray Massey and published by Goldminds Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of short essays, written over a period of years, pictures the true Ozarks and its people as Ellen Gray Massey has experienced them. While it captures the scene it also shows how the area has influenced her personal and professional life. From her childhood attending school in Washington D.C., and living all her adult years in the Ozarks, came the material and background to become a writer, her life-long ambition.
