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THE JAMES: TRANSFORMATION OF AN OZARK RIVER
We chose to profile the James River in a 352-page all color book because its watershed contains the largest town…
Congressman Dewey Short – Hillbilly and Orator and proud of it
Dewey Short was “an avowed Hill-Billy.” Neither he nor renowned folklorist Vance Randolph ever disavowed the term. Unlike the transplanted…
CHARLEY BARNES, famed James River fishing guide, with brothers John and Herbert
Robert Page Lincoln profiled Charley Barnes, James River guide and john boat builder, in a long article titled “Floating Down…
“Largest ever” – James River float trip for L. B Price Mercantile, 1923
The L.B. Price Mercantile Company was incorporated 18 February 1898 and almost made it to 100 years, being dissolved in…