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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792579103321

Autore

Rader Benjamin G

Titolo

Down on Mahans Creek [[electronic resource] ] : A History of an Ozarks Neighborhood / / Benjamin G. Rader

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fayetteville, [Arkansas] : , : The University of Arkansas Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

9781610756020

1610756029

9781682260197 (cloth : alk. paper)

1682260194

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (403 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Ozark studies

Disciplina

917.67

Soggetti

Mountain people - Missouri - History - 19th century

Mountain people - Ozark Mountains - History - 19th century

Mountain people - Missouri - History - 20th century

Mountain people - Ozark Mountains - History - 20th century

Montagnards - Missouri - Histoire - 19e siècle

Montagnards - Ozark, Monts - Histoire - 19e siècle

Montagnards - Missouri - Histoire - 20e siècle

Montagnards - Ozark, Monts - Histoire - 20e siècle

Boundaries

Mountain people

Electronic books.

Ozark Mountains Boundaries History

Missouri

United States Ozark Mountains

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Series editor's preface -- Preface: My journey into Ozarks history -- Prologue: Magic of Mahans Creek -- Part I. Their Kentucky homeland: 1. Childress Clan ; 2. German Hat Maker's family ; 3. Hard times in Hart County -- Part II. Settling on Mahans Creek -- Part III. Scream of the



saw mill -- Part IV. When in places even the Creek went dry.

Sommario/riassunto

"In Down on Mahans Creek, Benjamin Rader provides a fascinating look at a neighborhood in the Missouri Ozarks from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. He explores the many ways in which Mahans Creek, though remote, was never completely isolated or self-sufficient. The residents were deeply affected by the Civil War, and the arrival of the railroad and the timber boom in the 1890s propelled the community into modern times, creating a more fast-paced and consumer-oriented way of life and a new moral sensibility. During the Great Depression the creek's residents returned to some of the older values for survival. After World War II, modern technology changed their lives again, causing a movement away from the countryside and to the nearby small towns.  Down on Mahans Creek tells the dynamic story of this distinctive neighborhood navigating the push and pull of the old and new ways of life." --Book jacket.