Back Yonder: An Ozark Chronicle
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Back Yonder: An Ozark Chronicle
Back Yonder: An Ozark Chronicle

Back Yonder: An Ozark Chronicle

By
Charles Wayman. Hogue (Author) Brooks Blevins (Contributor)  

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Originally released in 1932, Wayman Hogue's Back Yonder is a rare and entertaining memoir of life in rural Arkansas during the decades follow- ing 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 rug- ged, impoverished, and sometimes violent places. From one-room schoolhouses to moonshiners, the details in Hogue's story capture the essence of a particular time and place, even as the characters reflect a universal quality that endears them to the mod- ern reader. This reissue of Back Yonder, the first in the Chronicles of the Ozarks series, features an introduction by historian Brooks Blevins that explores the life of Charles Wayman Hogue, analyzes the people and events that inspired the book, and places the volume in the context of America's discovery of the Ozarks in the years between the World Wars. 33 Illustrations
Charles Wayman Hogue(1870-1965)grew up in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. He attended what is now the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, taught school, later moved to Greenville, Mississippi, and Memphis, Tennessee, and was the father of well-known Arkansas 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.
  • Contributor: Charles Wayman. Hogue
  • Imprint: University of Arkansas Press
  • ISBN13: 9781557286987
  • Number of Pages: 330
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x228mm
  • Packaged Weight: 506
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
  • Release Date: 2016-01-31
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Charles Wayman Hogue(1870-1965)grew up in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. He attended what is now the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, taught school, later moved to Greenville, Mississippi, and Memphis, Tennessee, and was the father of well-known Arkansas 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.

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