Down on Mahans Creek
A History of an Ozarks Neighborhood
1st Edition
Published on 15. February 2017
400 pages
978-1-61075-602-0 (ISBN)
Description
In Down on Mahans Creek, Benjamin Rader provides a fascinating look at a neighborhood in the Missouri Ozarks from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. He explores the many ways in which Mahans Creek, though remote, was never completely isolated or self-sufficient. The residents were deeply affected by the Civil War, and the arrival of the railroad and the timber boom in the 1890s propelled the community into modern times, creating a more fast-paced and consumer-oriented way of life and a new moral sensibility. During the Great Depression the creek s residents returned to some of the older values for survival. After World War II, modern technology changed their lives again, causing a movement away from the countryside and to the nearby small towns.Down on Mahans Creek tells the dynamic story of this distinctive neighborhood navigating the push and pull of the old and new ways of life.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Preface: My Journey into Ozarks History
- Prologue: The Magic of Mahans Creek
- Part I: Their Kentucky Homeland
- 1. The Childress Clan
- 2. The German Hat Maker's Family
- 3. Hard Times in Hart County
- Part II: Settling on Mahans Creek
- 4. Like Coming Home Again
- 5. Granny and Her Family
- 6. That Old Red Should Be Killed
- 7. The Neighborhood
- Afterword: "The Colored Lunatic of Jackson Township"
- Part III: "The Scream of the Saw Mill"
- 8. The Coming of Euphemia
- 9. He Chose His Hounds
- 10. The Neighborhood Awakens
- 11. From Down in the Hollows to Ozark Towns
- 12. Leaving the Homeland
- Afterword: "The Celebrated Cow Case"
- Part IV: When in Places Even the Creek Went Dry
- 13. "Have We a Moses?"
- 14. The Folk up in Open Hollow
- 15. Clashing Cultures
- 16. When the Tribe Came Together
- Epilogue: "The Creek Has Changed a Lot since Then"
- Notes
- Index
