Down on Mahans Creek

Rader, Benjamin G.

ISBN 10: 1682260194 / ISBN 13: 9781682260197

Published by University of Arkansas Press, 2017

About this Item

Series: Ozarks Studies. Num Pages: 400 pages, 21 images. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. . . 2017. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Seller Inventory # V9781682260197

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Down on Mahans Creek
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1682260194
• ISBN 13: 9781682260197
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

In Down on Mahans Creek, Benjamin Rader provides a fascinating look at a neighborhood in the Missouri Ozarks from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. He explores the many ways in which Mahans Creek, though remote, was never completely isolated or self-sufficient. The residents were deeply affected by the Civil War, and the arrival of the railroad and the timber boom in the 1890s propelled the community into modern times, creating a more fast-paced and consumer-oriented way of life and a new moral sensibility. During the Great Depression the creek’s residents returned to some of the older values for survival. After World War II, modern technology changed their lives again, causing a movement away from the countryside and to the nearby small towns.

Down on Mahans Creek tells the dynamic story of this distinctive neighborhood navigating the push and pull of the old and new ways of life.

About the Author

Benjamin G. Rader is James L. Sellers Professor of History emeritus at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln and the author of five books. He was born and raised in the Mahans Creek neighborhood and today lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.