OZARK A Homeland and A Hinterland: The Current and Jacks Fork Riverways Historic Resource Study

Cover

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Prehistoric Presence in the Riverways

2. Early Native American and European Contact

3. Early Settlement: Rural Community on the Ozark Frontier, 1815-1850

4. Forces of Change and the Enduring Ozark Frontier: Land Policies and Internal Improvements

5. Forces of Change and the Enduring Ozark Frontier: The Civil War

6. The Ozark Riverways and the "New South": Hinterland Development and Exploitation, 1870-1920

7. The Ozark Riverways and the "New South": Change in the Homeland, 1870-1920

8. The Ozark Riverways and the "New South" Continuity in the Homeland, 1870-1920

9. Deforestation and the Rise of Modern Recreation

10. Government Intervention and Modern Recreation

Appendix A: A Note on Sources for the Base Maps

Appendix B: Identification of Ozark Cultural Structures and Sites on the National Register of Historic Places and Cultural Properties with National Register Potential

Selected Bibliography

Index (omitted from the online edition)

1. Prehistoric Periods

2. Average Size and Number of Land Entries in the Southern Courtois Hills, 1821-1860

3. Regional Population of Current River by Counties

4. Carter County Fishing and Shooting Club Fishing Catch by Decade, 1889-1940

1. Location of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways

2. Base Map 1 Prehistoric and Historic Indian Sites

3. Central Shannon County Settlement Pattern 1840

4. Base Map 2 The Homeland: Early Settlement 1812-1860

5. Counties Adjacent to the Ozark National Scenic Riverways

6. Pine Logging Activities in the Southeastern Ozarks

7. Base Map 3 The Hinterland: Railroad and Lumber Era 1860-1920

8. Base Map 4 Recreation and Government Intervention 1920-1965

1. Reed Log House

2. Chilton House

3. Prefabricated House Being Transported by Rail to Grandin

4. Yellow Pine Lumbering in Southeast Missouri

5. Yellow Pine Logging Activities

6. Harvesting Virgin Pine Forest in Southeast Missouri

7. Missouri Lumber and Mining Company Rebuilding a Flood Damaged Bridge Over the Current River in Carter County

8. Log Train of the Missouri Lumber and Mining Company Running Parallel to Jacks Fork in Shannon County

9. Fishertown Mill of the Ozark Land and Lumber Company

10. Ozark Land and Lumber Company Lumber Yard and Mill at Fishertown

11. Interior of the Fishertown Mill

12. Some of the 475 Houses Provided by the Missouri Lumber and Mining Company in Grandin

13. Doniphan, Missouri

14. Van Buren, Missouri

15. Van Buren "Patriot Band"

16. View of Alley Mill Hamlet from the Cliff Above the Spring

17. Alley Store with Town-like Facade that Replaced the Old Store in 1913

18. Interior of Alley Store with Residents Sitting Around the Soda Fountain

19. Class Photograph of Story Creek School, Shannon County

20. School Boy with a Lunch Pail and Book Bag

21. Buttin Rock School, Shannon County

22. Lower Parker School, Dent County

23. Barn Building at Nichols Farm, Dent County

24. Barn Building at Nichols Farm, Dent County

25. Barn Building at Nichols Farm, Dent County

26. Birthday Gathering at Nichols Farm

27. Susie Nichols on Horse in Front of the Nichols' House

28. Nichols' House Restored in the 1980s

29. Nichols' Barn and Corncrib Restored in the 1980s

30. Paddle Boat of Smalley Tie and Lumber Company

31. Tie Rafting Down the Current River by the Smalley Tie and Lumber Company

32. Men Loading Ties in the Tie Shoot

33. Tie Yard of the Smalley Tie and Lumber Company

34. Current River Residents Hauling Logs

35. Clubhouse of the Carter County Fishing and Shooting Club

36. Cabin of the Shannon County Hunting and Fishing Club

37. Group Photograph Behind Alley Mill

38. H. Edmund Knotts Stand at Alley Mill Fourth of July Picnic

39. Merry-Go-Round Set Up from Time to Time at Alley

40. Man on a Horse and a Child on a Mule

41. Stereoptican View of River Guide in a Johnboat on the Current River

42. Crossing the Current on a Ferry at Van Buren, Missouri

43. Family with a Mule Team and Wagon Crossing Jacks River on a Ferry

44. Crossing the Jacks Fork near Alley with a Horse and Wagon Team

45. Model T Crossing the Jacks Fork River Over a Low Water Bridge near Alley

46. Early Steel Structure Bridge over the Current River

47. Big Spring State Park, Carter County, Missouri

48. CCC Tent Camp #1710 at Big Spring State Park

49. CCC Construction of the Pump House at Big Spring State Park

50. CCC Construction of the Dining Lodge at Big Spring State Park

51. Completed Dining Lodge at Big Spring State Park

52. CCC Worker Planting Trees at Alley Spring State Park, Shannon County

53. Round Spring Lodge at Round Spring State Park, Shannon County

54. Bales Boating and Mercantile Company Float Trip

55. Walter Klepzig Mill on Rocky Creek