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Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 1186
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Missouri Historical Review
Author: Ozark Baptizings, Hangings, and Other Diversions
Author: Robert K. GilmorePublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806122700
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Ozark Baptizings, Hangings, and Other Diversions is about the people of a unique corner of America and how they entertained themselves at the turn of the century. In the years from 1885 to 1910 most Ozark communities were still relatively isolated from the outside and from each other. Thus they had to rely on their own resources for diversion from the difficult and often solitary business of everyday living. The most popular of their entertainments were those that brought some "theater" into their lives. They especially delighted in "literaries," debates, mock trials, closing-of-school programs, suppers, picnics, brush-arbor revivals, and baptizings. Then there was the occasional hanging that for audience attention was rivaled only by the political rally. The hanging took on all the flavor of high drama, even to the impassioned farewell address by the condemned, who was carried away by the excitement of it all. By their entertainments shall we know them, and this account of Ozarkers' diversions reveals them in all their independence, conservatism, sense of place, humor, dedication to learning, love of the spoken language, and religious and political intensity. No "come-here" (an Ozarker's term for a newcomer), Robert K. Gilmore grew up on an Ozark farm, reared by grandparents who were young in the era described in this book. Years later he went back to the rural Ozarks and encouraged the people to recall the early days for him. They described the entertainments of their youth with a special clarity of recall. The files of the Ozark weeklies also proved richly rewarding. The editors and their rural "correspondents" delighted in describing the local entertainments in vivid reportage loaded with editorial comment. This book, illustrated with rare photographs of turn-of-the-century diversions celebrates the centennial of an era.
The Pocket Commercial Gazetteer of Scotland and Directory to the Cities, Towns, Villages and Hamlets
Author: Michael MacGregorPublisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Kelly's Directory of the County of Gloucester
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Category : Gloucestershire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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A Reminiscent History of the Ozark Region
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ISBN: 9780893080877
Category : Arkansas
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Our Storehouse of Missouri Place Names
Author: Robert L. RamsayPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826205865
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This bulletin is one in a series published by the College of Arts and Science in which pertinent and interesting information that has been collected and analyzed in the research activities of regular departments of the College is made available to the public. The study of Missouri place names has been a project of Professor Robert L. Ramsay of the Department of English for a number of years. He has directed a series of eighteen masters theses in the field, and as a result of the research conducted by his students and through his own activities, a master file of Missouri place names has been prepared. This bulletin is only a sample of the information that has been collected and classified. The College of Arts and Science is making it available to the citizens of the State at a nominal price so that the public can have some knowledge and appreciation of this interesting and worthwhile study. The bulletin records a very significant part of our history and culture.
Ayer Directory, Newspapers, Magazines and Trade Publications
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Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 1694
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Before Fort Campbell
Author: M. Jay StottmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780578248981
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Languages : en
Pages :
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U.S. Marines In Vietnam: Fighting The North Vietnamese, 1967
Author: Maj. Gary L. TelferPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787200841
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 827
Book Description
This is the fourth volume in an operational and chronological series covering the U.S. Marine Corps’ participation in the Vietnam War. This volume details the change in focus of the III Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF), which fought in South Vietnam’s northernmost corps area, I Corps. This volume, like its predecessors, concentrates on the ground war in I Corps and III MAF’s perspective of the Vietnam War as an entity. It also covers the Marine Corps participation in the advisory effort, the operations of the two Special Landing Forces of the U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet, and the services of Marines with the staff of the U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. There are additional chapters on supporting arms and logistics, and a discussion of the Marine role in Vietnam in relation to the overall American effort.
Author: George Sabo