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Arkansans Face Wartime Past and Present
Velma B. Branscum Woody
Wartime history of Arkansans
brought to life in short stories
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.
Velma B. Branscum Woody is the author of
Bandits, Bears, and Backaches: A
Collection of Short Stories Based on Arkansas History,
also published by Butler Center Books.
November
$17.95 paper
978-0-9800897-9-0 | 0-9800897-9-4
$33.95 cloth
978-0-9800897-8-3 | 1-9800897-8-6
200 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Distributed for the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies.
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