Ghost of the Ozarks
Subtitle: murder and memory in the upland South
By: Brooks Blevins
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780252036958; 9780252094118
Subjects: Collective memory; Murder; Trials (Murder); Press coverage; Stereotypes (Social psychology); Stone County; Social life and customs History; Folklore; History
Description: "In 1929, in a remote county of the Arkansas Ozarks, the gruesome murder of harmonica-playing drifter Connie Franklin and the brutal rape of his teenaged fiancee captured the attention of a nation on the cusp of the Great Depression."--Jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Vigilantism and Vengeance; title: Barons of the Hills; title: The Ozarks in the Crosshairs; title: A Ghost's Tale; title: The Backstay of Crick and Charley; title: Is He or Ain't He?; title: The Man Behind the French Harp; title: "He Hain't My Connie"; title: The Identification of a Dead Man; title: The Farewell Tour of a Ghost; title: Folklore and Fact in the Aftermath; title: Appendix A: Change and Persistence in the Rural Ozarks : An Essay on Setting; title: Appendix B: A Musical Coda.