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A Life on the Black River in Arkansas: A Pioneering Bankers Memoir | 
 enlarge | Author: Ewell R. Coleman
Publisher: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
Category: Book
List Price: $34.95
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Sales Rank: 1421110
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 124
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.5
ISBN: 193510604X
Dewey Decimal Number: 976
EAN: 9781935106043
ASIN: 193510604X
Publication Date: September 8, 2008
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The Black River flows from Missouri into Arkansas east of Branson and west of the Bootheel. It meanders where the foothills of the Ozarks begin to rise out of the Mississippi plain. The area was sparsely populated when E. R. Coleman was a young man. Like the population they served, businesses were modest, mostly small, and scattered. Arkansas was still the Bear State; slogans boasting that it wasor predicting that it would becomethe Land of Opportunity were yet to be conceived. Colemans early years were shaped by the Great Depression, by a family ethic that dictated working as long as there was sunlight in the day, and by a region bordered on the west by Oklahomas Dust Bowl and on the east by the mightysometimes vengefulMississippi River. Told in his own words, this is a genuine American Horatio Alger story of hardscrabble beginnings, working longer and harder than todays youth might be able to imagine, and plain dealing from cotton fields to board rooms.
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