The Big Bear of Arkansas
Author: William Trotter Porter
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Published: 1843
Total Pages: 202
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Published: 1843
Total Pages: 202
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Published: 1847
Total Pages: 184
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Published: 1858*
Total Pages: 181
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Francis McDermott
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780809321919
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of thirty-seven stories, reprints from diaries and journals, and other materials published prior to the days of Mark Twain that depict Mississippi River life.
Author: Brooks Blevins
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2010-06-01
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 161075042X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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. Mencken described AR (not AK, folks) as the “apex of moronia.” While, in 1942 a Time magazine article said Arkansas had “developed a mass inferiority complex unique in American history.” Arkansas/Arkansaw is the first book to explain how Arkansas’s image began and how the popular culture stereotypes have been perpetuated and altered through succeeding generations. Brooks Blevins argues that the image has not always been a bad one. He discusses travel accounts, literature, radio programs, movies, and television shows that give a very positive image of the Natural State. From territorial accounts of the Creole inhabitants of the Mississippi River Valley to national derision of the state’s triple-wide governor’s mansion to Li’l Abner, the Beverly Hillbillies, and Slingblade, Blevins leads readers on an entertaining and insightful tour through more than two centuries of the idea of Arkansas. One discovers along the way how one state becomes simultaneously a punch line and a source of admiration for progressives and social critics alike.
Author: William Trotter Porter
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Published: 1845
Total Pages: 169
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Faulkner
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-05-18
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0307792145
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.” —William Faulkner, on receiving the Nobel Prize Go Down, Moses is composed of seven interrelated stories, all of them set in Faulkner’s mythic Yoknapatawpha County. From a variety of perspectives, Faulkner examines the complex, changing relationships between blacks and whites, between man and nature, weaving a cohesive novel rich in implication and insight.
Author: Marvin H. Clark
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Details the lives of Bill Pinnell and Morris Talifson, fur farmers in Montana, gold miners during the Great Depression, and renown Kodiak brown bear hunters.