Book NotesSource: The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Spring, 1988), pp. 83-85Published by: Arkansas Historical AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40038140 .

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Book Notes

The Cross County Historical Society has published the following pamphlets: (1) Naming a Confederate County, Cross County, Arkansas, 1862-1873, by Richard L. Hartness, Sr. Cost is $1. (2) A Postal Directory: The Cross County, Arkansas, Area, 1826-1975, by Richard L. Hartness, Sr. Cost is $2. (3) A reprint of An Opportunity of a Lifetime (1904, by Thomas A. Bedford, Jr.). It is about Wynne, Arkansas. Cost is $1. (4) Wittsburg, Arkansas, Crowley's Ridge Steamboat Riverport, 1848-181)0, by Richard L. Hartness, Sr. The cost is $7.25, postage paid. (5) Ceme- teries of Cross County, Arkansas, Volume 2. $17, postage paid.

Also still available are eighteen issues of the Cross County Era, a newsletter published once a month starting in July 1974 going through January 1976 by the Cross County Historical Society. This newsletter is no longer published. The cost is ten cents each, or $1.80 for the entire

eighteen issues. The address of the society is Box 943, Wynne, Arkansas 72396. Dues

are $4.00 annually. The society's office is located in the Cross County Courthouse in Wynne. There you can find the census on microfilm for the area from 1830 through 1910 and a newspaper file on all aspects of Cross County past and present, books and newspapers published in the

county. The society invites researchers to come to the office between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Cecil Lace is president, Emma Lace is vice president, and Jimmie S. James is secretary.

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Margaret H. Hubbard, 1207 Shady Grove Road, Hot Springs, Arkan- sas 71901, has for sale the following books: (1) A new publication is the Prairie County, Arkansas, Marriage Records, Yohimz 2, 1867-1896. Books

E, F, and G, full brides index. The cost is $15 postpaid. (2) Also still available are Prairie County, Arkansas, Marriage Records, Volume 1, 1854-1881, Books C, D, and B, full brides index, $15 postpaid; and (3) Prairie County, Arkansas, 1890 Census Reconstruction, indexed, $12 postpaid. # # #

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84 ARKANSAS HISTORICAL QUARTERLY

Some of the books available through the Washington County His- torical Society, 118 East Dickson Street, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, are Ernie Deane, Arkansas Place Names, $7; William Campbell, ioo Years

of Fayetteville, $10; Lois Miller, Index to Wills, 1828-1931 (Probate Books A-K), and Marriages, Washington County, Books A,B, C ($14), Books D, E, F, G, H, I ($20), and Books J, K, L ($18); and Robert Winn, Civil War in the Ozar\s ($3), Railroads of N. W. Arkansas ($10) ; and Winslow, Top of the Ozar\s ($5).

There are more and you might be interested in back copies of the

society's journal Flashbac\. These are available for $5 each. Add $1.50 for shipping and handling for each order.

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Regie s Love, the biography of former Washington, Arkansas, resi- dent Regie Robinson Heard, is a "depiction of the life of this black woman, from childhood memories of Arkansas to her current friend-

ships in Milwaukee." The book is available at Old Washington Historic State Park, Post

Office Box 98, Washington, Arkansas 71862 for $9, including postage. # # #

Remember that members of the association receive a 10 percent dis- count on books listed in Rose Publishing Company's current catalogue. Our members should all have received the catalogue from Rose Publish-

ing, along with a letter from President Ellen Shipley telling of the 10

percent discount. The address of Rose Publishing Company is 301 Louisiana Street, Little Rock, Arkansas 72201, and the telephone number is (501) 372-1666.

Some of the many books on Arkansas listed are Arkansas Heritage by Ruth Mitchell; The History of Arkansas by Fred Berry and John Novak; Call the Roll: The First 150 Years of the Arkansas Legislature by Jerry E. Hinshaw; The American Spa: Hot Springs, Arkansas by Dee

Brown; Politics on the Southwestern Frontier: Arkansas Territory, i8ig- 1836 by Lonnie J. White; Arkansas and Reconstruction: The Influence of Geography, Economics and Personality by George H. Thomson; and

Arkansas Geography by Hubert Stroud and Gerald Hanson. There are

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BOOK NOTES 85

Life in the Leatherwoods. An Ozar\ Boyhood Remembered. By John Quincy Wolf. Pp. 176. Paperback, $8.95. Spelling bees, quail hunts on horseback, stealing cream from the springhouse - these sharply focused scenes fill this memoir of growing up in the Ozark foothills in the two decades following the Civil War. The author also recounts his early manhood as a steamboat clerk on the White River near the turn of the

century and describes such Ozark folkways as home remedies, supersti- tions, cooking, and folk dancing.

John Quincy Wolf was president of the First National Bank of Bates-

ville, Arkansas, and in his later years wrote a nostalgia column for the Batesville Guard Record. After his death in 1949, his son, John Quincy Wolf, Jr., catalogued and organized his papers. After the younger Wolf died in 1972, his widow, Bess Wolf, finished compiling the material and

arranged for its publication. It will be brought out again in April by August House, Post Office

Box 3223, Little Rock, Arkansas 72203. The telephone number there is

(501) 663-7300. You can write August House for the spring 1988 cata-

logue that lists books of American folklore, fiction, and humor.

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Frontier Researchers, a genealogical society, offer the following books for sale: i8go Sebastian County Reconstructed Census ($20 postpaid); Sebastian County Original Land Grants ($5 postpaid) ; and Crawford County Original Land Grants ($5 postpaid).

The address is Post Office Box 2123, Fort Smith, Arkansas 72902.

Janice Eddleman of Route 1, Box 137, Hackett, Arkansas 72937 is editor of the society's journal, Frontier Research, which is published quarterly. Dues are $10 annually.

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