"The forefront purpose of The Izard County Historical and Genealogical Society is to preserve and promote research of Arkansas History, its ancestors, and allied families. The Society brings this volume to your booksehlf with pleasure and pride. The many family sketches of more than 500 Izard countians - their ups and downs, trials, happy times, and painful accounts, as well as much history, is contained in these pages for your enjoyment and reference. This volume was compiled and written by and about its people, places, and events.".
This work provides a basic foundation and fundamental source for beginning your genealogical research into Izard County, Arkansas. The author's approach is similar to many 20th Century authors addressing in Part I such topics as the early settlers, early history, early modes of transportation, education and schools, banking, newspapers, towns and villages, wars and conflicts, churches, and county officials. Part II contains biographical sketches of more than 100 individuals and families. Paperback, (1947), repr. 2012, Illus.,168 pp.
Winner of the Missouri History Book Award, from the State Historical Society of Missouri Winner of the Arkansiana Award, from the Arkansas Library Association Geologic forces raised the Ozarks. Myth enshrouds these hills. Human beings shaped them and were shaped by them. The Ozarks reflect the epic tableau of the American people—the native Osage and would-be colonial conquerors, the determined settlers and on-the-make speculators, the endless labors of hardscrabble farmers and capitalism of visionary entrepreneurs. The Old Ozarks is the first volume of a monumental three-part history of the region and its inhabitants. Brooks Blevins begins in deep prehistory, charting how these highlands of granite, dolomite, and limestone came to exist. From there he turns to the political and economic motivations behind the eagerness of many peoples to possess the Ozarks. Blevins places these early proto-Ozarkers within the context of larger American history and the economic, social, and political forces that drove it forward. But he also tells the varied and colorful human stories that fill the region's storied past—and contribute to the powerful myths and misunderstandings that even today distort our views of the Ozarks' places and people. A sweeping history in the grand tradition, A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1: The Old Ozarks is essential reading for anyone who cares about the highland heart of America.
In the first comprehensive social history of the Arkansas Ozarks from the early 19th century through the end of the 20th century, Blevins examines settlement patterns, farming, economics, class, and tourism. He also explores the development of conflicting images of the Ozarks as a timeless arcadia peopled by quaint, homespun characters or a backward region filled with hillbillies.
