The eleven stories in this collection all deal with human aspects of the history of Arkansas. The settings range from a prehistoric mastodon hunt to a twentieth-century family's departure from the state in search of employment. Lesson plans developed by the author are available for teachers at www.butlercenter.org.

Bandits, Bears, and Backaches: A Collection of Short Stories Based on Arkansas History

Literature & Fiction

Woody, Velma B. Branscum

Short Stories & Anthologies

Butler Center for Arkansas Studies

For almost two hundred years, Arkansans have been part of America’s struggle to maintain democracy and keep the peace at home and around the globe. Homefront Arkansas: Arkansans Face Wartime Past and Present shows how war has affected those at home as well as those who served as soldiers. The chapters include: * A wounded Civil War soldier stumbles onto a homestead after a battle at Poison Springs, Arkansas, forever changing the family there * In 1875, Arkansans take sides in the Brooks-Baxter War, involving two men each claiming to be the governor of Arkansas * Arkansas volunteers follow Teddy Roosevelt into the Spanish-American War, and find troops crowded into a filthy camp as they wait to be shipped out * An African American girl leaves her native state to escape persecution, only to find that a world war is threatening to envelop her new home in England Woody’s stories provide a factual and compelling backdrop for Arkansas’s history as seen through its conflicts. Fascinated readers will follow the chronology of Arkansans who met the nation’s call both at home and abroad.

Homefront Arkansas: Arkansans Face Wartime Past and Present

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Bandits, Bears, and Backaches: A Collection of Short Stories Based on Arkansas History

Homefront Arkansas: Arkansans Face Wartime Past and Present