OZARK Historic Resource Study

¹Russel L. Gerlach, "The Ozark Scotch-Irish: The Subconscious Persistence of Ethnic Culture," P.A.S.T,Pioneer America Society Transactions, 7 (1984): 53-54.

²James Lee Murphy, "A History of the Southeastern Ozark Region of Missouri," (Ph.D. diss., Saint Louis University, 1982), 200-202.

³Ibid., 203-205.

⁴Leslie G. Hill, "History of the Missouri Lumber and Mining Company 1880-1909," (Ph.D. diss., University of Missouri, 1949), 189-192; and Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 209-210.

⁵Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 194-196.

⁶Ibid., 183; and Carl O. Sauer, The Geography of the Ozark Highland of Missouri (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1920), 183.

⁷Hill, "History of the Missouri Lumber," 191-192.

⁸Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 207-209; and Hill, "History of the Missouri Lumber," 189.

⁹Ibid.

¹⁰Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 208.

¹¹Ibid., 210.

¹²Ibid., 195, 212-214.

¹³Sauer, Geography of the Ozark Highlands, 186-187.

¹⁴Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 245-247.

¹⁵Ibid., 219-220, 228-229.

¹⁶Ibid., 235-236.

¹⁷Ibid., 236-238; Sauer, Geography of the Ozark Highland, 219.

¹⁸Lynn Morrow, "Estate Builders in the Missouri Ozarks: Establishing a St. Louis Tradition," Gateway Heritage 2 (Winter, 1981-1982): 44; and The Daily Tribune, Jefferson City, 14 January 1894, reported that the U. S. Fish Commission recently stocked the Current with "several thousand choice fish, and if the citizens and officers will join in protecting the fish we will soon have the river full of fish of the rarest kind."

¹⁹Jefferson City Tribune, 30 May 1888 and 14 January 1894; The Current Local, 1 September 1888, 6 October 1888, and 13 October 1888; and Charles Callison, "How Good Were The Good Old Days—And What Became of Them?" The Missouri Conservationist, August 1946, 2.

²⁰Shannon County Hunting and Fishing Club, Tract File #30-103 (old #1505), Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Headquarters, Van Buren, Missouri. The clubhouse of the Carter County Fishing and Shooting Club burned down in the early 1980s, but most of the cabins of the Shannon County Hunting and Fishing Club are still standing.

²¹Callison, "How Good Were The Good Old Days," 2-4; and see Hall, Stars Upstream, 66, 115-116, for the quotation on johnboats.

²²Ibid., 11; Hall, Stars Upstream, 104; and Larry Dablemont, "The History of Float Fishing Part II," Fishing and Hunting Journal (May, 1986): 61-62. Gigging referred to the practice of catching fish with a pronged fishing spear.

²³French Papers, 1877-1934, Folder 15, Western History Manuscript Collection, State Historical Society of Missouri Manuscripts, Rolla, Missouri, hereafter cited as French Papers, WHMC.

²⁴French Papers, WHMC, Folder 6; and Robert Flanders, "The Education of a Village Editor," Ozark Watch 1 (Winter, 1988): 9.

²⁵Flanders, "Village Editor," 9.

²⁶Callison, "How Good Were The Good Old Days," 11.

²⁷Hall, Stars Upstream, 104, 233.

²⁸Milton D. Rafferty, The Ozarks Land and Life (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980), 200-201.

²⁹Robert Flanders and Lynn Morrow, Alley, An Ozark Mill Hamlet, 1890-1925: Society, Economy, Landscape. Prepared for the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, National Park Service, by The Center for Ozark Studies, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, 1985, 50-51.

³⁰Ibid., 51-52.

³¹Ibid., 54.

³²Ibid., 53.

³³Ibid., 53-58, 62; The White House was the residence of the mill and store operator.

³⁴Ibid., 54, 58, 70.