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Back Yonder: An Ozark Chronicle
Charles Wayman Hogue
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Description for Back Yonder: An Ozark Chronicle
Paperback. Editor(s): Blevins, Brooks. Num Pages: 330 pages, 33 Illustrations. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 499.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
330
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557286987
SKU
V9781557286987
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About Charles Wayman Hogue
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 ... Read more
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