Manufacturer: Univ of Missouri Pr
Written By: James William Miller

"Every cemetery is worth visiting, and the people in them are worth trying to remember. They were much like us". Thus the writers of The Dallas Morning News set out to explore the cemeteries of Texas and the surrounding states for the newspaper's Travel section. The more than forty-five stories serve as history lessons and travelogues for more than sixty cemeteries, chronicling the resting places ...

Manufacturer: University of North Texas Press
Written By: Bryan Woolley, Tom Simmons, Kathryn Straach, Bob Bersano

During the “Golden Age of Postcards,” a craze that swept the nation in the early 1900s, postcard photographers captured images of everyday life in small towns all over the country. In this tradition, its creators unknowingly produced an invaluable archive of historical data that gives us a glimpse of the way life used to be.

Manufacturer: Arcadia Publishing
Written By: Ray Hanley, Stephen G. Hanley

Manufacturer: Louisiana State University Press
Written By: Carl H. Moneyhon

In telling the story of five generations of her family and its farm in the Arkansas Delta, Margaret Jones Bolsterli brings together her own research, historical perspective, and family lore as it reaches her from the days of her great-grandfather down to her nephew. The result is a family saga that is at once universal and personal, historical and timeless. During Wind and Rain moves from ...

Manufacturer: University of Arkansas Press
Written By: Margaret Jones Bolsterli

Sentinels of History was conceived of as a way to mark the turn of the millennium by the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program. This generously illustrated book contains thirty-nine essays, each of which showcases an important Arkansas site and is written by a noted authority. Also included is a location map for these sites and a full appendix providing location information, county by county, for ...

Manufacturer: University of Arkansas Press

Often thought of as a primitive backwoods peopled by rough hunters and unsavory characters, early Arkansas was actually productive and dynamic in the same manner as other American territories and states. In this, the second volume in the Histories of Arkansas, S. Charles Bolton describes the migration, mostly from other southern states, that carried Americans into Arkansas; the growth of an ...

Manufacturer: University of Arkansas Press
Written By: S. Charles Bolton

Manufacturer: C.M. Bartels
Written By: Carolyn M Bartels

Manufacturer: The Author
Written By: Leister E Presley

Manufacturer: Heritage Books Inc
Written By: Nancy Maxwell