Walking Editor of the Ozarks

• Published in: The Arkansas Historical Quarterly Vol. 59; no. 3; pp. 329 - 330
• Main Author: Dougan, Michael B.
• Format: Book Review Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Fayetteville The Arkansas Historical Association 01-10-2000; Arkansas Historical Association, Department of History, University of Arkansas
• Subjects: Editors; Arkansas; Kansas City Missouri; White River
• ISSN: 0004-1823; 2327-1213
• DOI: 10.2307/40027995

Much fine work, valuable both for primary information and informed insight, was done by the editors of the state's weekly papers who earned hard cash by selling stories to the Arkansas Gazette; the Arkansas Democrat; newspapers in Kansas City, St. Louis, and Memphis; or even to national publications. By the 1930s much special material began to be collected in magazine format as an insert to the Sunday paper, and for the next thirty years these magazines relied heavily on locally produced literature. [...]despite his deep and abiding affection for the plain people of the Ozarks, he was an incessant proponent of progress who spent forty years lobbying editorially and politically for the creation of dams on the White River that would reduce the mountain way of life to a museum piece for tourists visiting Mountain View.