"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

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

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

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

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

Last year, as The New York Times has reported, a young couple from Heber Springs, Arkansas offered a collector 50 family photographs, unassuming black-and-white studio portraits dating from the mid-twentieth century. That quiet sale, which raised the possibility that there were other vintage prints of Mike Disfarmer's work in area family albums, set off a competitive buying frenzy that had ...

Manufacturer: Steidl/Steven Kasher Gallery
Written By: Alan Trachtenberg, Steven Kasher

Manufacturer: Univ Pr of Kansas
Written By: Federal Writers Project

Manufacturer: Southern Historical Pr
Written By: Stephen J. Chism

Manufacturer: Two Trails Publishing
Written By: Carolyn M Bartels

Manufacturer: Southern Historical Pr
Written By: Goodspeed Publishing Company