BUFFALO
Let The River Be:
A History of the Ozark's Buffalo River
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover

Preface

I. Beginnings: Prehistory and Early Exploration

II. "...came to arkansas...:" Ante—Bellum Settlement of the Watershed

III. The Civil War Years

IV. "...this lovely land...:" Post War Development

V. Lead and Zinc Mining

VI. "...let the River be."

Bibliography



ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Buffalo River Watershed
2. Zebulon M. Pike's 1810 map of Buffaloe Fork of the White River
3. Rafting logs on the Buffalo, 1890s
4. Saw Mill, Searcy County, ca. 1890s
5. Picnic, Diamond Cave Spring, ca. 1910
6. River baptizing near Jasper, 1934
7. Panther Creek Mine, Mill Shed, Newton County, 1916
8. Panther Creek Mine, Newton County, 1916
9. Morning Star Mine and Mill, Rush, 1904


LIST OF TABLES
1. Ante—Bellum Population
2. Slaveholders and Slaves: 1860
3. Population: 1870-1980

Portions of chapters II and V appeared in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Autumn and Winter, 1978. Copyright, 1978, Arkansas Historical Association. Reprinted by permission of the Arkansas Historical Association.



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