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Arkansas/Arkansaw

2010-06-01 Social Science
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Release : 2010-06-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Arkansas/Arkansaw by : Brooks Blevins

Download or read book Arkansas/Arkansaw written by Brooks Blevins. This book was released on 2010-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Winner, 2011 Ragsdale Award

Edward Palmer's Arkansaw Mounds

2010-02-15 History
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Release : 2010-02-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 126/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Edward Palmer's Arkansaw Mounds by : Edward Palmer

Download or read book Edward Palmer's Arkansaw Mounds written by Edward Palmer. This book was released on 2010-02-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1880s a massive scientific effort was launched by the Smithsonian Institution to discover who had built the prehistoric burial mounds found throughout the United States. Arkansaw Mounds tells the story of this exploration and of Edward Palmer, one of the nineteenth century’s greatest natural historians and archaeologists, who was recruited to lead the research project. Arkansas was unusually rich in prehistoric remains, especially mounds, and became a major focus of the study. Palmer and his team of researchers discovered that the mounds had been built by the ancestors of the historic North American Indians, shattering the then-popular theory that a lost non-Indian race had built them.

The Big Bear of Arkansas

1843 Short stories, American
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Release : 1843
Genre : Short stories, American
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Book Synopsis The Big Bear of Arkansas by : William Trotter Porter

Download or read book The Big Bear of Arkansas written by William Trotter Porter. This book was released on 1843. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Arkansaw Bear

2009-07 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2009-07
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 209/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Arkansaw Bear by : Albert Bigelow Paine

Download or read book The Arkansaw Bear written by Albert Bigelow Paine. This book was released on 2009-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albert Bigelow Paine (1861-1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. He was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Committee and wrote in several genres, including fiction, humour, and verse. Paine was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts and moved to Bentonsport, Iowa at the age of 1. He later moved to St. Louis, where he trained as a photographer, and became a dealer in photographic supplies in Fort Scott, Kansas. He wrote several children's books, the first of which was published in 1898. He went on to write about his travelling adventures, including The Tent Dwellers, written about a trout fishing trip to Nova Scotia. Other works by him: The Boy's Life of Mark Twain (1916), Mark Twain: A Biography, 3 volumes (1917), Mark Twain's Letters, 2 volumes (1917), A Short Life of Mark Twain (1920), Mark Twain's Speeches (1923) and Life and Lillian Gish (1932).

Three Years in Arkansaw [sic]

1905 American wit and humor
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Release : 1905
Genre : American wit and humor
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Book Synopsis Three Years in Arkansaw [sic] by : Marion Hughes

Download or read book Three Years in Arkansaw [sic] written by Marion Hughes. This book was released on 1905. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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