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Book Review

Canada and the United States


Brooks Blevins. Hill Folks: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2002. Pp. xiv, 340. Cloth $55.00, paper $19.95.

Brooks Blevins tells two different stories in this book. The first is a history of the settlement, life, and economic development of the Arkansas Ozarks. The second details how folklorists, travelers, and tourists crafted a folksy, hillbilly image for the Ozarks. Ironically, the image of the Ozarkers as lost in time took hold precisely when the Ozarks region itself was modernizing and the subsistence lifestyle celebrated in the image was disappearing. . . .

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