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Conflict in the Ozarks : hill folk, industrialists, and government in Missouri's Courtois Hills /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Benac, David, 1974-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Kirksville, Mo. : Truman State University Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Mountain people > Missouri > History > 19th century.
Mountain people > Ozark Mountains Region > History > 19th century.
Social conflict > Missouri > History > 19th century.
Government, Resistance to > Missouri > History > 19th century.
Industrialization > Missouri > History > 19th century.
Missouri Lumber and Mining Company > History > 19th century.
Lumber trade > Social aspects > Missouri > History > 19th century.
Lumber trade > Environmental aspects > Missouri > History > 19th century.
Missouri > Social conditions > 19th century.
Ozark Mountains Region > Social conditions > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • The hills and their inhabitants
  • The Missouri Lumber and Mining Company and the timber industry
  • The means of control and resistance
  • Resistance to governmental involvement in the Ozarks, 1905 to 1931
  • A governmental foothold, 1931 to 1946
  • A twentieth-century epilogue.