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Book Review
Shepherd of the Hills Country: Tourism Transforms the Ozarks, 1880s1930s. By Lynn Morrow and Linda Myers-Phinney. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1999. xiv, 279 pp. Paper, $24.00, ISBN 1-55728-574-8.)
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Although historians might most often associate Missouri with farming, tourism has long since replaced it as the number one industry in the state. According to Lynn Morrow and Linda Myers-Phinney, the authors of Shepherd of the Hills Country, the historical and economic foundation for this transformation occurred almost a century ago, when railroad men and good roads advocates brought wealthy visitors to the formerly agricultural region. |
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