The Turnbo Manuscripts
by Silas Claiborne Turnbo
1844-1925
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- Viewing the Steamboat Going up the Missouri
River on Which Governor Jackson was Aboard in War Times
- The Alph Cook Cave
- A Cold Swim Across White River
- A Little Scare in the Big War
- Picked Up Her Husband's Brains
- The Last Hours of Mike Yocum
- Stirring Scenes in the Early Days of Yellville,
Arkansas
- Riding into the Federal Lines for Salt
- The Commander of the Company Refused to
Prefer Charges Against Them
- Dragged a Dead Man from the Road
- A Terrible Experience in the Civil War
- A Little Incident of War Times
- "Oh, Boys, Shoot Me Again"
- War and its Victims
- Hot Words Pass Between Two Officers Unequal
in Rank
- Reading the Bible by the Reflection of Light
from a Burning Town
- Captured in the Night Time
- A Man Escapes Death by Leaping Up and
Running
- How a Soldier Exchanged Hats with a Small
Boy
- A Party of Southern Soldiers Refuse to
Appropriate a Pair of Federal Gloves
- The Killing of Wilse Brown
- Substituting Pieces of Plank and a Door
Shutter for a Coffin
- How I Was Befriended Once in War Times
- Ex-governor, Elias N. Conway
- Sacrificed His Life Foolishly
- Opposed to Civil War
- Joyful Meeting Between Father and Son
- A Solemn Scene
- A War Time Incident in Douglas County,
Missouri
- Love and War
- A Pathetic Scene on the Battlefield
- Sad and Serious Recollections of Wardays
- Wounding an Inoffensive Man
- Agitating the War
- The Oxen Shied at a Dead Man Lying in
the Road
- Shot the Pig to Recover His Knife
- An Incident of the Civil War at Glasgow,
Missouri
- A Company of Confederate Soldiers Drinking
Water in War Times on George's Creek
- Viewing a Sham Battle Between a Lot of
Boys in War Days
- Was Hung Forthwith
- Last Hours of John Fritts
- A Cowardly Murder
- A Sickening Scene of the War
- A Stampede in a Blackjack Thicket
- Protecting the Lives of Two Paroled Soldiers
- The Skirmish at Forsyth in War Times
- The Burning of Forsyth, Missouri
- The Execution of Lemars and William Marsh
- The Old Winter Quarters of Colonel Mitchell's
Regiment of Confederate Soldiers of the Winter 1861-1862
- The Solitary Horseman
- A Bloody Encounter Between a Confederate
Officer and a Federal Soldier on Jimmie's Creek
- Picked Up on the Scene Where a Small Force
of Federals Stampeded a Small Bunch of Southern Men in War Times
- A Remarkable Escape from Death
- Death by the Roadside
- The Salt Peter Cave Bluff and the Capture
of the Powder Works There
- More Killing in War Days
- A Stirring Moment Just Before the Break
of Day
- A Stirring Scene of the Civil War One
Morning in Ozark County, Missouri
- Bad Treatment Followed by Revenge
- How the Man Willoughby Hall was Scalped
- A Tearful Scene
- They Detested the Cowardice of the One
and Admired the Bravery of the Other
- Shocking Scenes Enacted at Yellville
- Yellville in the Dark Days of Civil War
- Death of Two Federal Soldiers Who Were
Supposed to be Spies
- A Sad Scene at a Burial in the Dusk of
the Evening
- Chased by the Enemy
- A Hair Breadths Escape from Prison
- A Company of Mounted Men Enjoy a Lively
Time with a Herd of Deer in War Times
- Guiding Five Southern Men to Safety after
Night
- He Saved His Life by Feigning Death
- How a Woman Put Two Robbers to Flight
- A Brave Woman Saves the Life of Her Husband
- The Scoundrels Were Baffled
- Shot Down in the Presence of His Daughter
- Killed on His Porch
- Shot Down on the Porch
- Torture and Death
- A Horrible Day
- He Was Killed and the Horses Captured
- The Death of Four Men
- Awful Cruel Treatment
- He Endured the Torture and Did Not Yield
Up His Money
- Cruel Treatment of a Boy by Brutish Men
- Robbing an Infant Child of its Wrap
- How John Nave Met Death
- A Woman is Allowed to Kill the Murderer
of Her Husband
- Buried Near the Spot Where He Met Death
- Visiting the Grave of Her Affiance
- A Horrible Execution
- Wife and Daughter Saved His Life
- "Killed by Bushwhackers"
- Saving Her House Through Tears and Prayer
- A Bereaved Wife Hauls the Dead Body of
Her Husband to the Grave Yard on Truck Wheels
- Faithful and True
- Barbarous and Cruel
- How a Stolen Coverlet Was Recovered
- Sad Accounts of the Civil War
- Very Cruel
- Shocking and Cruel
- Old Time Events
- They Tore Up All the Fractional Money
- As Brutal as Savages
- Exterminated by the Awful Bushwhackers
- Depriving Children of the Last Morsel
of Food
- Horrible and Pathetic
- A House Burner Snatches a Woman's Bonnet
Off Her Head and Tosses it into the Flames
- The Marauders Threw Two Children on the
Floor in Search of Booty
- Brutal Treatment of a Woman and Her Son
by Bandits
- The Bandits Whipped Him, Hung Him, and
Tortured Him with Fire
- Simply Horrible
- They Pretended That the Milk Had Been
Poisoned
- A Horrifying War Time Incident in Horseshoe
Bend of White River
- The Young Man Was True to His Benefactor
- A Leader of a Southern Band of Men Attempts
to Force a Union Man to Join His Forces
- A Pathetic Story of the War
- In the Line of Savagery
- Death of Billy Howard
- Cut His Tongue Out
- A Set of Thieves
- How "Dud" Coker Was Slain
- A Bold Robbery
- They Stole Quilts, Counterpanes, Thread,
Bacon and Lard
- Wanton Destruction of a Mill and its Contents
- Died Very Old
- Huge Buffaloes
- Pursued by a Buffalo Calf
- How a Woman and Her Children Were Saved
from a Bear
- An Interesting View of a Wild Bear in
the Wild Woods
- A Hot Fight with a Bear
- How a Hunter Got His Back Scratched by
a Bear
- Frightened at the Groans of a Dying Bear
- Following a Bear with a Hog in its Hug
- Seeing Three Bears Up the Same Tree
- Hauling a Dead Bear Out of a Cave
- Face to Face with Bruin
- How a Lot of Young Hunters Got Their Coats
Burned Up
- A Bear's Last Visit to a Cornfield
- A Hungry Bear Eats His Last Mess of Pork
- A Fight to the Death Between a Wild Boar
and Bear
- A Bear Creates a Panic Among a Lot of
Huckleberry Pickers
- The Old Bear Refused to be Driven
- Fell on the Carcass of a Bear in Night
Time
- A Desperate Combat With a Bear
- In a Nest of Bears
- A Lot of Hunters in a Cave With a Bear
- Losing Two Dogs in a Fight With a Bear
- Killing Bear on Music Creek
- Killing a Bear on Current River
- A Bear Finds Five Bee Trees
- A Stubborn Bear
- Poor Comfort from a Friendly Bear
- Hotly Chased by a Wounded Bear
- Shooting a Dead Bear
- He Had Loaded the Gun Three Times Without
Thinking What He Was Doing
- The Bear Caught Him by the Heel
- A Lively Scene Among a Party of Hunters
- Chasing a Family of Bears
- A Lively Fight with a Bear
- Plenty of Sugar and Bear Meat
- Peculiar Actions of a Wounded Bear
- The Small Bullet Killed the Bear
- Killing Three Bears in a Field of Corn
- A Night Visit from a Bear
- Killing Bear with an Axe
- Encountering a Lot of Bear in a Cave
- He Supposed It Was a Muly Cow
- A Bear Makes Two Boys Retreat in a Hurry
- Taking a Dear Bear Home Swung on a Dead
Pole
- Scaring a Bear Out of a Field of Corn
- Bear Stories as Told by an Old Pioneer
- How the Old Time Hunter, Christopher C.
Henderson, Killed a Bear on the Head of Shoal Creek
- Bruin Wallows a Hunter in Clay
- In Close Contact with a Bear
- How Settlers on Horseback Chased the Bear
- Amusing Scenes in Meeting Bear in Caves
and Otherwise
- Smoking a Bear to Death in a Cave
- Serious Wounds Inflicted on Hunters by
Infuriated Bears in the Buffalo Mountains of Arkansas
- They Fastened on the Wrong Bear
- Pulling a Dear Bear Out of a Cave with
Oxen
- Viewing a Bear While Preparing its Bed
During a Snow Storm
- Bear and Hunter Were Both Scared
- He Dropped His Rifle and Run from the
Bear
- A Mad Bear Runs Over Two Hunters Leaping
Astride of a Bears Back
- A Wild Bear and Two Boys Drink Water Together
- Two Bears Eating Hickory Nuts, One of
Them Chases a Hunter in a Lively Way
- An Amusing Scene While Killing a Bear
- Desperate Encounter With a Wounded Bear
- A Bear Resembles a Huge Snowball While
Rolling Down a Mountainside
- How Two Women Killed a Bear
- How a Boasting Fellow Was Vanquished by
a Little Bear
- Making a Bear Get Up Off Its Bed to Shoot
It
- A Bear Kills Two Dogs in a Fight
- Imprisoned in a Cave with a Bear
- A Bear Crushes a Hunter's Foot, Terrific
Combat Between a Boar and Bear
- Scenes and Stories of Meeting Bear in
the Forest
- Thrilling Encounters with Bear
- A Funny Scene While Chasing and Killing
a Bear
- He Threw a Stone at the Deer and Killed
It
- Viewing 5 Deer While They Kill a Black
Snake
- How a Buck Deer Slayed a Rattlesnake
- The Buck Had Been Shot 12 Times
- Finding a Mad Stone in a Chunk of Cooked
Venison
- Hunters Luck
- Crooked Creek and its Tributaries and
Incidents of Old Time Hunting in This Valley
- A Little Boy Kills a Deer with Stones
- Soldiers Racing After a Bunch of Fawns
- Killing Two Deer in a Singular Way
- A Nice View of a Small Bunch of Deer
- It Was a Pretty Sight
- A Bunch of Deer Come Near the Yard Gate
- A Hunter Watches Three Deer Kill a Big
Rattler
- Tussle with Wounded Deer
- Seeing a Fine Bunch of Deer in Winter Time
- A Lively Time While Killing and Dressing the Meat of Five Deer
- Encounters Between Wounded Bucks and Hunters and Their Dogs
- Ferocity of the Antlered Monarchs While Fighting
- Killing Three or More Deer at One Shot
- An Early Settler Riding on a Buck Hanging on by Holding to Its Horns
- A Wounded Buck Kills a Hunter's Dog
- Cutting a Deer's Throat with a Barlow Knife
- Dangerous Encounters with Wounded Bucks
- Desperate Struggle Between Two Bucks
- Shooting at a Deer 380 Yards
- A Fire Hunter's Ill Luck
- A Strange Colored Deer Hide
- Shooting at a Dead Deer
- Received a Good Price for the Hide and Horns of the Buck
- A Singular Incident While Fire Hunting for Deer
- Exterminating a Small Bunch of Elk
- Hung by the Horns
- A Deer That Was Hard to Kill
- Great Tenacity of Life in Deer
- A Wounded Buck Creates a Scene
- A Hard Fought Encounter Between a Hunter and a Buck
- How a Hunter Hugged a Wounded Buck
- Finding a Small Stick in a Deer's Heart
- Viewing a Pretty Herd of Deer
- How Wolves Used Up Dogs
- Little Items of Hunting
- He Was Glad to Get Rid of the Wolves
- An Expected Fight Between a Dog and Wolf Did Not Pan Out
- A Pack of Wolves Attack and Kill a Two Year Old Horse
- Mrs. Tersey Fellows and the Wolves
- Tieing a Grown Wolf Foot with a Rope and Pulling It Out of a Cave Alive
- Hunting Coons and Fighting Wolves
- An Absent Minded Hunter
- How Two Cattle Herders Fought Wolves
- Other Accounts of Finding Bucks or Their Frames Locked Fast by Their Horns
- Was Hard to Convince that He Had Killed Three Deer at One Shot
- Luck in Leisure
- A Strange Occurrence While Hunting
- At a Deer Killing
- Killing Five Deer on a Cold Day
- Shot at One Deer and Killed Another
- A Hunter's Wife Saves Him from a Wounded Buck
- Some Incidents of Hunting
- The Old Allin Trimble Farm and How Allin Trimble and Others Killed Deer
- Strange Indeed
- Several Stories of All Sorts
- Another Hallucination and Two Scared Hunters
- A Strange Deer
- Shot at a Buck and Killed a Doe
- Using the Same Bullet to Kill Three Deer With
- Among the Antlered Monarchs of the Forest
- Freaks Among Deer
- Deer Killing Snakes
- Killing Deer on Wild Cat Creek
- Surprised by a Deer
- Followed a Bunch of Deer
- Seeing a White Deer
- A Peculiar Colored Doe
- Shot At a Dead Deer
- Hallucinations--A Talk with a Hunter About the Supposed Apparition of Two Deer
- Killing Two Deer at One Shot While Fire Hunting
- Counting Deer Tracks
- Interesting Accounts of Killing Deer
- Encounter Between Two Bucks
- A Dear Runs a Quarter Mile After It's Throat is Cut
- Two Deer Get Up and Run After Their Throats Are Cut
- Three and Three Make Six
- A Jolly Time Following a Wounded Deer on a Christmas Day
- A Beautiful Herd of Deer
- Among a Herd of Deer in the Water
- Hunting Deer and Killing Two at One Shot
- A Peculiar Formation of Deer Horns
- A Big Set of Deer's Horns
- A Buck Deer runs 1/4 Mile After Its Throat Is Cut
- A Deer Runs 1/4 Mile After Being Shot Through the Heart
- Seeing a Bunch of Deer at Play
- Estimate to be 75 Deer in the Bunch
- Counting 50 Deer in One Group
- The Wolf Would Not Scare
- A Night Attack by Wolves on a Lonely Trailway
- A Lively Encounter with Wolves
- A Desperate Combat with Wolves
- The Wolves Were Victorious
- Interrupted by a Bunch of Wolves
- Wolves and Other Forest Scenes
- Hotly Chased by Wolves
- Wolves Invade a Deer Lick
- Stories of Thrilling Encounters with Wolves
- A Wolf Persuades a Hunter to Climb a Tree and a Lively Fight with a Wolf
- A Desperate Fight Between a Wolf and Five Dogs in a Pen Trap
- Wolves Had Taught Him How to Run
- An Amusing Scene While Husband and Wife Are Escaping from Wolves
- An Amusing Experience with a Wolf
- The Mouth of Shoal Creek and a Wolf Hunt South of the River
- Finding Where a Panther Had Slain a Deer
- A Panther Attempts to Make a Horse Carry Double
- It Was a Panther
- A Ferocious Panther Slays a Two Years Old Colt
- Remarkable Leap of a Panther
- Finding Where a Panther Had Killed a Deer
- Hunting Squirrels and Killing a Huge Panther
- A Panther Creates a Scene
- Carrying a Dead Panther to Forsyth on a Mule
- A Boy Twelve Years Old Shoots a Panther and Kills It
- He Imagined That It Was a Panther and Fled Through the Darkness
- A Short Interview with a Panther
- Narrow Escape from a Savage Pack of Wolves
- A Hungry Wolf Attempts to Snatch a Pig from a Settler's Arms
- A Young Sheep Herder's Adventure with a Wolf
- He Supposed the Yellow Wolf Was a Yellow Dog and Set the Animal Free
- A Few Lively Moments with Wolves
- Old Time Sport Among Wolves
- Seeing a Wolf on the Porch
- One of the Ways Young Wolves Were Taken Out of Caves
- Treed on the Ash Hopper
- Wolves Attracted by Human Blood
- What a Timber Wolf Did
- A Race Between a Dog and Two Wolves
- Two Wolves and Two Dogs Strung Out in Single File Pursuing Each Other
- Wiped Out of Existence by Wolves
- A Settler Attacked and Pursued by Wolves
- Battle Between Wolves and a Negro Man
- Encountering Wolves
- Stories of Vicious Wolves and How Settlers Took Wolves Out of Caves
- A Negro Woman on Horseback Attacked by Wolves
- Wolves Kill a Cow and Mule
- A Wolf Attacks a Yearling Calf in the Yard
- Devoured by Wolves
- A Spotted Wolf
- How a Wolf Got Fastened Up in the Smokehouse
- Two Wolves Kill a Steer
- A Lively Incident While Two Men Were Fire Hunting
- Several Stories of Wolves
- A Gang of Wolves Attack a Belated Traveller
- Wolves Contest a Settler's Claim
- A Wolf Carries Part of a Dead Deer Through the Snow
- Great Tenacity of Life in Some Wolves
- Bunches of Wolves as Viewed by Settlers
- Seeing a Panther
- Protected by Three Fierce Dogs
- Chasing a Panther Across White River and Killing It
- Startled by the Scream of a Panther
- A Panther Threatens a Mail Carrier
- Shooting a Panther by Firelight
- A Panther Attempts to Snatch an Infant from Its Mother's Arms
- Treed a Panther
- Threatened by a Panther After Night
- A Panther Pulls a Child Out of a Chair with its Paws
- Finding a Panther Guarding a Dead Bear
- A Panther Follows a Wagon Loaded with Dead Bear
- A Panther Kills a Favorite Dog
- A Panther Rushes a Hunter to His Domicile
- A Greedy Panther Choked to Death on a Piece of Meat
- Killing a Small Panther on Current River
- It Was Not a Coon Though
- A Midnight Attack of a Panther on a Bunch of Hogs
- Hurrying Along After Night from a Panther
- The Struggles and Escape of a Panther After It Was Shot
- Terrible Experience with a Panther
- A Panther Gets Among Bone's Sheep
- Two Children Kill a Panther But Thought It Was a Wolf
- A Night Encounter with a Panther, An Incident of Pioneer Life in Taney County
- Slaying an Ugly Panther
- Destroyed by a Wild Beast
- Annoyed by a Panther
- A Panther Attempts to Leap on a Man on Horseback
- Got His Gun Broke While Trying to Pursue a Panther
- Startled by the Scream of a Panther
- How Easy a Panther Was Killed
- Chased Across the Hills After Night by a Panther
- Pursued by a Ferocious Panther
- The First Panther Killed in Marion County
- A Man in an Ox Wagon Followed by a Panther
- Bluffing a Panther
- A Panther Darts Through a Settler's House
- Killing a Bunch of Panthers
- Watching a Bunch of Panthers Frolicking
- Other Panther Stories
- Exciting Adventures on Clinton Mountain
- Peculiar Actions of a Wounded Panther
- Accounts of Panther Attacking Colts
- Three Panther Stories
- Lively Scene While Attacking and Killing a Panther
- An Entertaining Time with a Panther
- A Hard Struggle with a Panther
- Killing a Panther in the Salt Peter Cave Bluff
- In a Bunch of Eleven Dogs a Panther Leaves Only Three Alive
- A Panther Frightens Two Little Girls
- A Midnight Attack of a Panther on a Settler's Cabin in Taney County, Missouri
- A Scene of Terror One Night on Buffalo
- Shot at a Noise and Killed a Calf
- Seeing a Panther Kill a Deer
- A Panther's Attack on a Little Girl Was Frustrated
- Meeting An Angry Panther in a Cave
- In Close Company with a Panther
- Killing Panther in the Buffalo Mountains
- Dreadful Experience with Panther
- Stories of Panther Attacking and Killing
Deer
- Stories of Panther Attacking and Killing Deer
- Made His Wife a Pair of Shoes Out of the Hide of a Catamount
- A Catamount Leaps on a Wounded Buck
- Muggins Hollow
- It Thought He Was a Turkey
- A Catamount Sprang on Him
- The Catamounts Mistook Them for a Turkey
- A Young Catamount Attacks a Boy Hunter
- Meeting an Angry Catamount
- A Lively Scene
- A Fight with a Wild Cat
- A Wild Cat That Was Supposed to be Dead Put a Quick Move on a Hunter
- Among the Coons
- A Saucy Coon Makes Him Bounce Up
- The Big Coon Nearly Cost Him His Life
- Came Near Going Over a Precipice
- A Little Story for Young Hunters to Read
- Among the Squirrels
- Running Races Together Killing Squirrels
- A Mink Pursues and Catches a Coach Whip Snake
- A Man and a Mink Have a Stirring Time with Each Other
- Scrimmage with Wolves
- Stories of Buffalo and How a Hunter's Wife and Three Children Were Saved by a Buffalo Calf
- In the Wilds of a Bottom on the Upper White River
- Deer, Turkeys, Catamounts and a Rattlesnake
- An Interesting Time Among Game and Finding Bee Trees During the Pioneer Days of Ozark County, Missouri
- A Boar Kills a Bear in a Cane Brake
- They Brought a Big Panther and a Monster Buck Home with Them
- Catching Wolves in Steel Traps and How a Settler Killed a Panther
- Interesting Tales of an Old Timer of Southern Missouri
- A Night Scene at a Deer Lick
- A Fight to a Finish Between a Bear and Panther
- Reminiscences of a Pioneer of Big Creek, Taney County, Missouri
- Stories About Bears, Deer and Bees
- A Terrific Encounter Between a Bear and Panther
- Among the Wild Turkey and Deer
- Several Stories of Interest as Told by an Old Veteran Hunter
- A Settler of East Sugar Loaf Tells of Incidents Among the Wild Beasts of Long Ago
- Stories About Deer and a Successful Raid on Young Wolves
- Put to Flight by Wolves and Other Good Stories
- Capturing Cub Bears and Killing the Old One and Other reminiscences
- Stories of Bear and a Scrimmage with a Deer
- Taking Dead Deer Home on a Jack and How a Bear Captured a Bee Course
- Among Wild Turkeys, Bee Trees and Deer
- Stories of Hunting in the Early Days
- Encountering an Enraged Bear in a Cave and a Battle with a Wounded Buck
- Forest Scenes That Were Funny
- Brief Items of Hunting
- Stories as Gleaned from an Early Resident
- Bill Clark, The Deer Slayer and Bee Hunter
- A Woman Who Was a Good Marksman with a Gun
- Killing Four Deer and Nine Turkeys with Five Shots and Five Bullets
- In Camp Among the Wild Animals
- Finding the Skulls of a Wolf and Deer Hung Together
- Was Afraid His Terrapin Would Scare
- Death from the Bite of a Diamond Rattlesnake
- How Two Snakes Tried to Swallow Each Other
- Stories of Finding and Killing Unusually Large Rattlesnakes
- Snakes Charming Small Animals 1
- Snakes Charming Small Animals 2
- A Monster Diamond Rattlesnake
- In Close Quarters with Venomous Reptiles
- Brief Stories About Centipedes
- Stories of Enormous Black Snakes
- How a Rattler Charmed a Squirrel
- How a Black Snake Broke Turkey Eggs
- Blood Poison from a Copperhead Snake
- A Squirrel Hawk in the Deadly Folds of a Coachwhip Snake
- A Swarm of Diamond Rattlesnakes
- Watching a Rattlesnake Charm a Rabbit
- His First Introduction to a Religious Service
- Angry Rattlers
- A Little Child in Contact with a Big Serpent
- How He Saved a Load of Ammunition
- Killing a Big Turkey with a Little Gun
- A Wild Turkey Flies a Short Distance After Its Head Was Shot Off
- Capturing a Big Gobbler
- Finding a Turkey's Head Under an Ash Tree
- A Well Pleased Young Man
- Stories of Two Wild Turkeys Living Awhile After Their Hearts Had Been Shot to Pieces
- Remarkable Escape of a Pig from the Talons of an Eagle
- Watching an Eagle Kill a Deer
- Depriving an Eagle of a Nice Mess of Turkey
- Seeing an Eagle Kill a Full Grown Deer
- Scaring an Eagle Off of a Dying Deer
- The Eagle Was Mistaken
- A Big Eagle
- Four Eagles Take Possession of a Hunter's Deer
- Story of a Greedy Eagle
- Watching an Eagle Strike at a Deer
- How an Eagle Killed a Crow
- The Hunter Played Off on His Friend
- A Rich Find of Wild Honey in a Pine Tree
- A Daring Bee Hunter
- A Colony of Wild Honeybees Put a Move on Him
- Put to Flight by Honeybees
- How a Lady Found a Rich Bee Tree
- Enormous Sized Honeycomb in Bee Trees
- Among the Wild Bees
- Made a Honey Case in the Woods
- Drinking Honey Out of a Deer's Leg
- Among the Hornets and Yellow Jackets
- In Contact with a Colony of Wasps
- A Brief Bit of History
- An Expert Swimmer Gives Up His Life in the Water
- The Big Post Oak Tree Covered with Grapevines
- A Glance at the Early Settlement of the South Fork of East Sugar Loaf Creek
- Nearly Reached the Century Mark
- Rich Billy Williams
- How Evening Shade Arkansas Derived Its Name
- Where John Fisher Was Killed and Buried
- Where "Buck" Jones Met Death
- A Few Incidents of the Early Days of Crooked Creek
- More Incidents of Early Times in Greene County, Missouri
- Some Recollections of the Long Ago
- A Noted Family Who Took Part in the Southern Cause
- Where a Revolutionary Soldier Died and is Buried
- Recollections of Another Pioneer Family
- Charley Smith, The Miller and the Maker of Whiskey
- The Old Pioneer Joe Magness and His Family
- Sad Scenes of Death
- Where Lize Sims Was Killed and Buried
- Troubled Waters of Sorrow
- How the Caleb Spring Took Its Name
- Brief Sketch of Early History of the Grave Yard in the South West Corner of Ozark County, Missouri
- Recollections of a Pioneer
- An Extreme Old Age
- The First Settlement at Peel, Arkansas
- Before Lead Hill Was a Town
- The Sisney Grave Yard
- A Cooper Who Lived in a Cave
- The Names of a Few Pioneer People
- Died at an Extreme Old Age
- On the Head of Swan Creek in the Pioneer Days
- More About Yellville and the Early Residents There and Vicinity
- A Part of an Account of the Coker Family, Biographical and Historical
- Five Children Who Were Saved from the Mountain Meadow Massacre
- A Few Items of Early Times at Warsaw and Vicinity
- More Recollections of Early Days
- Among the Old Settlers of Marion County, Arkansas, and the School Children at Yellville in the Early Days
- The Killing of Daniel Wickersham
- The Graves of Two Confederate Soldiers
- The Taburs Who Were Early Settlers on Big Creek
- Was Very Old
- Recollections of a Widow Woman
- A Few Reminiscences
- A Short Account of Shoal Creek and Pro-tem
- A Few Names of the Early Residents of Little North Fork
- Two Deaths on Shoal Creek in the Early Days
- Tom Norman and His Family and the Death of Four of Them
- Something About the Writer's People
- Bits of History
- Where John Ramsey Was Hung
- An Early Pioneer
- Among the Pioneers of Richland Creek
- Where John P. Vance is Buried
- Oakland, Arkansas
- A Death Stricken Family
- Brief Items of Interest Which Occurred at Yellville and on Jimmie's Creek in the Long Ago
- Reminiscences by Capt. J.C. (Curtis) Rea
- A Few Names of Early Residents
- The First Settlement Made at Pontiac, Missouri
- One of the Fearless Defenders of the Alamo
- Found Death in the Woods
- A Few More Old Items About Greene County [MO]
- Looking Back in the Past
- Early Times in St. Clair County, Missouri
- Where a Few Pioneers Lie Buried
- Panther Bottom Stories and How the Bottom Derived
- Forsyth in 1837 and the Early Settlement of Swan Creek
- Old Time Memories of the Buck Bottom
- William Holt and Family and the Holt Farm
- A Short History of the Lize Friend Grave Yard on Little North Fork
- A Few Names of the Pioneer Settlers on the Left Prong of Crooked Creek and Vicinity
- A Few Names of Men Who Were Slain in War Days
- Several Old Time Items Worthy of Interest
- She Remembers When the Land Office Was Established at Springfield, Missouri
- A Moving Family
- Among the Pioneer Hogan People
- Gainesville, Missouri, and Lick Creek
- George Washington Bingham
- Among the Dead
- Corn Shucking in Arkansas When Snow Was on the Ground
- A Few Thoughts of the Past
- Was Twelve Years Old When He Put On His First Pair of Shoes
- An Old Letter
- Raising Crops in the Pioneer Days
- How the People Received Their Mail and How Taxes Was Collected in the Early Days
- Hauling Salt From St. Louis to Forsyth
- The Hollinsworth Mill and Stories as Given by the Proprietor
- Low Wages and a Small Price for Cattle
- Dialogue Between Sam Johnson and a Traveler
- An Old Fashioned Barbecued Dinner
- Harvesting Wheat, Getting It Out and
Milling It in Early Days
- Fall of the Boasting Young Fellow
- In a Row Over a Game of Crack a Blow
- An Old Time Lawsuit
- Mob Violence
- The Lone Grave on Gooley's Spring Creek
- She Wanted the Infant to Have Enough to Eat
- Spoiling His Boots
- A Little Horse Race
- A Long Time Ago
- A Long Move in the Long Ago
- A Few Incidents of the Pioneer Days of Shannon County
- A Few Items of Early Times
- His Recollections of Being at the First Religious Service
- Eloped with His Wife's Brother's Wife
- "Pitcher" Potts and Col. William C. Mitchell or Carrollton, Arkansas, in Early Times
- The First Circuit Court
- Brief Items as Given by an Early Resident on Findley Creek
- Plowing During Early Times
- Travelers Voting in Arkansas in the Bygone Days
- He Learned the Value of Deer Hides and Made Better Use of Them
- Some of the Ways and Doings of the Early
Times
- A Circuit Court and a Swing in Old Times
- The Time When It Took 6 Months for a
Letter to Pass from North Arkansas to North Missouri
- Ashamed of His Pants
- Her First Pair of Shoes
- He Went Home Without His Pants
- Something About Blacksmith Shops and
the Distribution of Mail in the Early Days
- In Greene and Stone Counties, Missouri,
in the By Gone Days
- Pioneer Talk
- More Incidents of Early Days at Yellville,
Arkansas
- Old Time Recollections of Elbow Shoals
- Recollections of Early Days in Marion
County, Arkansas, as Told by a Lady Contributor
- Stories of Pioneer Days in North West
Arkansas
- The 4th of July at Forsyth in 1842
- Hunting and Freighting in the Early Days
- Early Times in St. Louis County, Missouri
- Recollections of the First Introduction
of Sorghum Seed
- How Sod Land Was Broke in the Pioneer's
Days
- It Was Wonderful to Them
- His Last Dance
- An Interview with a Pioneer Settler of
Bryant's Fork
- Early Experience
- Was 3 Years Old When He Seen His First
Bear
- Raising Flax for Home Use in the Early
Days
- Substituting a Milk Cow for a Horse
- Exposed by a Horseshoe
- How a Young Man Was Whipped for Stealing
Sugar and Other Articles
- How a Thief Was Caught in a Steel Trap
- Found Hung in the Woods
- Apprehending a Murderer in Arkansas
- Not a Missourian
- Going to School in His Shirt Tail
- Among the Schools and School Children
in the Pioneer Days
- Where I Learned the Alphabet
- A Sleepy School Teacher
- An Old Time Country School
- How He Learned His Alphabet
- The First School House Built at Prairie
Grove, Arkansas
- More Running Foot Races Than Teaching
- Going to School and Wading Rubidoo [Roubidoux]
Creek
- Cruel Punishment of a Little Girl at
School
- In Howard County, Missouri
- The Long Haired School Teacher
- His First Experience at School
- Something About Schools in the Early
Days
- Early School Days on Big Creek
- Early School Days Near Bloomfield, Missouri
- How a School Was Taught in the Pioneer
Days of Southeast Missouri
- Working for the Education of Their Children
- The Grief of a Mother About Her Starving
Children
- A Sad Scene
- Nearly Famished for Food
- Bewildered in the Wild Woods
- Experience of Two Boys in Hunting for
Breadstuff in War Days
- Hardships and Starvation in the Turbulent
Days of War
- Carrying Bread Corn from the Arkansas
River to the West Fork of White River on Horse Back
- A Mixture of Stories in One Chapter
- Pioneer Incidents on Sugar Loaf Prairie
and Vicinity, Among the Wolves and Buffalo
- Two Settlers Kill a Bear Near a Cabin
- They Shot a Favorite Dog
- A Few Incidents of the Battle of Wilson
Creek and a Glimpse at Hunting
- Away Back in the Early Days of Madison
County, Arkansas
- Horrible Incident of the War and Other
Family History
- The Sad Fate of a Hunter
- Trampled to Death by a Horse
- Lay Out in the Bitter Cold
- The Drowning of Sam Nard and Miss Hanna
Friend in the Early Days of Marion County, Arkansas
- A Faithful Father and Son
- Frozen in the Cold and Snow
- Death of a Sick Woman at the Road Side
- A Dying Man Tells How He Is Haunted
- Mistook Him For a Wild Turkey and Killed
His Own Son
- Lost and Died in the Deep Snow
- A Hunter Kills His Friend Through Mistake
- Burned to Death
- Sad Misfortune of a Family
- The Drowning of Sam Johnson
- A Sad Story of the Long Ago
- A Woman's Dress Saturated with the Blood
of Her Dead Husband
- Disappeared Entirely
- Sad Account of a Lost Child
- Sad Fate of Isaac Johnson
- A Desperate Fight Among a Small Band
of Indians
- Chased by a Band of Indians
- Attacked by a Small Band of Indians
- Gambling with the Indians
- Stories of the Shawnee Indians
- An Old Indian Camp Ground
- A Praying Indian Chief and Other Stories
of the Red Men
- A Night Alarm
- Scared by the Indians and Stung by Nettles
- An Incident of the Great Rise in White
River in 1824
- A Cloud Burst and a Big Overflow
- A Remarkable Period of Ice and Snow
- How the Great Meteoric Shower Was Seen
and Felt in Hall County, Georgia
- How a Merry Dance Was Changed to a Devoted
Prayer Meeting
- How the Display Appeared at Athens, Tennessee,
and Its Effect on the People
- How the Remarkable Shower of Meteors
Was Observed on the Ohio River
- Seen the Shooting Stars
- How the Memorable Meteoric Display Was
Observed at Yellville, Arkansas
- Saved by a Dog
- Fast in a Hollow Tree
- A Turkey Hunter in Trouble
- Perils of a Man and His Three Sons While
Fire Hunting One Night on White River
- A Frightful Runaway
- The Prayers of a Devoted Wife Saves Her
Sick Husband from Death
- A Wonderful Escape from Drowning
- Saved by an Otter Hide
- Entrapped Under a Wagon Box
- Narrow Escape from Death
- Saved by a Silver Half Dollar
- His Sentence Was Commuted
- They Had Shot the Wrong Man
- He Was Afraid of Indians
- In the Midst of Death
- How the Insult Was Resented
- The Strange Preacher and the Remarkable
Influence He Had on Sinners
- A Foul Murder
- Women Were Scarce
- Finding a Badly Rusted Gun Barrel in
the Woods
- Promoted to the Game Chicken of the Walk
- The Old Hatter Shop
- Fell Over a Precipice and Was Killed
- An Appalling Calamity by Lightning
- A Story of Hidden Gold and Silver in
the Vicinity of Bee Creek
- How an Early Settler Destroyed His Life
- A Day and Part of a Night at Rock Bridge
One Court Week
- An Exorbitant Price for Pulling a Tooth
- A Woman Steals a Mare and Rides Her to
Buffalo
- The King and Everette War at Yellville,
Arkansas
- Shooting at a Roguish Bull
- Living in a Bad Sense
- He Knocked the Calf Down as He Was told
To Do
- Finding Human Skeletons in a Cave
- It Was Strange
- Shot to Death in a Discussion of the
War
- Finding the Skeleton of a Man in a Wild
Wilderness
- A Wonderful Spring of Water
- She Did Not Want to be Dead as Bad as
She Pretended To
- A Spring of Blood
- How He Remembered His Mother
- He Desired to Hear the Work of God, But
the Devil Persuaded the Man to Listen to Him
- Old Ned Run Away with the Dead Hog
- A Dancing Young Fellow Got His Shoes
Burned by the Young Lady Dancers
- His Gun Was Tricky and Discharged Itself
Twice in Less Than an Hour
- Twelve Pair of Twins
- Disinterment of the Remains of a Young
Lady After She Had Been Dead 12 or 13 Years
- The Rooster Was Enjoying a Ride on the
Drift Wood
- The Prayer of a Little Girl for Help
- He Went to Sleep and Fell Off of His
Horse
- A Sad Scene at the Dinner Table
- Death of John Roberts
- Where Joe Allin Was Shot to Death
- A Novel Way to Hide Money
- How Sufficient Salt for Family Use Was
Saved Throughout the Civil War
- Shot and Wounded His Mare for a Buck
Deer
- Shot a Sorrel Made for a Deer
- Acting Honorable
- He Was Absent Minded and Ruined His Ax
- The Men Made Eyes Were Cut Into Two Parts
- Excitement Over a Dummy
- Nearly Lost His Breath at Seeing a Dummy
- Amusing Incidents
- How Ned Coker Wanted the Moles Destroyed
- He Spit in His Face
- They Slept in the Bed Tick
- He Thought His Wife Had Cut His Throat
- Crittington and Tankus
- Early History of the Grave Yard at the
Mouth of Bratton's Spring Creek
- They Met in the Chimney
- An Amusing Scene One Saturday Night
- Silly Remarks of a Boy
- A Foolish Expression
- His Brother Had Been Sowing Tares
- A Happy Courtship That Ended with a Tearful
Disappointment
- How He Asked for His Bride
- The Boy Obeyed
- The Boaster Missed the Mark
- Torturing Wolves by Flaying Them Alive
- Killing a Mare with an Ax
- Flaying a Possum Alive
- Making a Preachers Horse Break His Neck
- Mistreating Turtles
- Stories of Turtles
- Voracious Eaters
- Flayed Alive by Indians
- Dodging Bullets
- A Hoop Snake
- Half Human and Half Snake
- Trait of an Old Man
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