Shepherd of the hills country
Subtitle: tourism transforms the Ozarks, 1880s-1930s
By: Lynn Morrow and Linda Myers-Phinney.
Contributors: Myers-Phinney, Linda, 1954-
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Fayetteville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Tourism -- Ozark Mountains -- History.; Ozark Mountains -- Economic conditions.
Description: "Recreational excursions into this part of the country began over one hundred years ago as urban Midwesterners, many of them captivated by Harold Bell Wright's novel The Shepherd of the Hills, sought the outdoors for spiritual and physical regeneration."--BOOK JACKET.

"Morrow and Myers-Phinney excavate the beginnings of commercial tourism in the region and follow it through six decades as the influx of visitors who became familiar with the Ozarks and its investment opportunities brought capital, new commerce, and additional residents to the hills."--BOOK JACKET.

"While the main theme of this study is the development of tourism, it is also a social history of the interior highlands of the Ozarks. We see how the residents and their way of life were discovered, exploited, and changed by new opportunities and the demands of tourism and increasing trade."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-267) and index.