Back Yonder - An Ozark Chronicle

Informationen zum Autor Born and raised on a farm in Arkansas, Charles Wayman Hogue (1868-1965) lived most of his life in Memphis, where he worked as an artist and a salesman. He was the father of writer Charlie May Simon. Brooks Blevins is the Noel Boyd Professor of Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University. He is the author of five books including Hill Folks: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image ; Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South ; and Arkansas/Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol' Boys Defined a State . Klappentext Originally released in 1932! Wayman Hogue's Back Yonder is an entertaining memoir of life in rural Arkansas during the decades following the Civil War. Using family legends! personal memories! and events from Arkansas history! Hogue! like his contemporary Laura Ingalls Wilder! creatively weaves a narrative of a family making its way in rugged! impoverished! and sometimes violent places. Zusammenfassung Originally released in 1932, Wayman Hogue’s Back Yonder is an entertaining memoir of life in rural Arkansas during the decades following the Civil War. Using family legends, personal memories, and events from Arkansas history, Hogue, like his contemporary Laura Ingalls Wilder, creatively weaves a narrative of a family making its way in rugged, impoverished, and sometimes violent places.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Wayman Hogue, Charles Wayman. Hogue, Charles Wayman/ Blevins Hogue, Wayman Hogue
• Assisted by: Brooks Blevins (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Arkansas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9781557286987
• ISBN: 978-1-55728-698-7
• No. of pages: 330
• Series: Chronicles of the Ozarks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies