Though I grew up in Webster Parish, Louisiana and Columbia County, Arkansas, I did not grow up there in the 1930s.
Here are some of the many sources I consulted for The County Line.
Nettie Killgore’s History of Columbia County
Godspeed Publishing’s History of Columbia County
Gregory Boyd’s Family Maps of Columbia County, Arkansas
Laura J. Cleveland and Dana Thornton’s Columbia County from Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series
The Elisha Talley Family by Dwight D. Taylor
Peter D. Tattersall’s Conviction: A True Story
Ernest Kahlar Alix’s Ransom Kidnapping in America: 1874-1974
Bryan Burrough’s Public Enemies
Ace Atkins’s Infamous
Robert Unger’s The Union Station Massacre
Jeff Guinn’s Go Down Together
Blanche Caldwell Barrow’s My Life with Bonnie & Clyde
John Neal Phillips’s Running with Bonnie and Clyde
Joe Urschel’s The Year of Fear
Tim Mahoney’s Secret Partners: Big Tom Brown and the Barker Gang
Arkansas and the New South, 1874-1929
Ben F. Johnson, III’s Arkansas in Modern America, 1930-1999
The WPA Guide to 1930s Arkansas
Timothy’s Egan’s The Worst Hard Time
The Great Depression by Robert S. McElvaine
Studs Terkel’s Hard Times
The Great Depression by David A. Shannon
Benjamin Roth’s The Great Depression: A Diary
The Banana Men: American Mercenaries & Entrepreneurs in Central America, 1880-1930 by Lester D. Langley and Thomas Schoonover
Dario A. Euraque’s Reinterpreting the Banana Republic
Rich Cohen’s The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King
Peter Chapman’s Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World
Dan Koeppel’s Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
The Rivers and Bayous of Louisiana, edited by Edwin Adams Davis
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CHRISTINE RUSSELL
HOLLIE BLANKENSHIP
MONICA HUMPHREY
NETTIE PECK
BRIANNA WILLIS
ELISE PRATT
VERONICA ENGLAND
MASON DECKER
Nettie Killgore’s History of Columbia County
Godspeed Publishing’s History of Columbia County
Gregory Boyd’s Family Maps of Columbia County, Arkansas
Laura J. Cleveland and Dana Thornton’s Columbia County from Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series
The Elisha Talley Family by Dwight D. Taylor
Peter D. Tattersall’s Conviction: A True Story
Ernest Kahlar Alix’s Ransom Kidnapping in America: 1874-1974
Bryan Burrough’s Public Enemies
Ace Atkins’s Infamous
Robert Unger’s The Union Station Massacre
Jeff Guinn’s Go Down Together
Blanche Caldwell Barrow’s My Life with Bonnie & Clyde
John Neal Phillips’s Running with Bonnie and Clyde
Joe Urschel’s The Year of Fear
Tim Mahoney’s Secret Partners: Big Tom Brown and the Barker Gang
Arkansas and the New South, 1874-1929
Ben F. Johnson, III’s Arkansas in Modern America, 1930-1999
The WPA Guide to 1930s Arkansas
Timothy’s Egan’s The Worst Hard Time
The Great Depression by Robert S. McElvaine
Studs Terkel’s Hard Times
The Great Depression by David A. Shannon
Benjamin Roth’s The Great Depression: A Diary
The Banana Men: American Mercenaries & Entrepreneurs in Central America, 1880-1930 by Lester D. Langley and Thomas Schoonover
Dario A. Euraque’s Reinterpreting the Banana Republic
Rich Cohen’s The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King
Peter Chapman’s Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World
Dan Koeppel’s Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
Christopher S. Stewart’s Jungleland: A Mysterious Lost City and a True Story of Deadly Adventure
Douglas Preston’s The Lost City of the Monkey God
The Rivers and Bayous of Louisiana, edited by Edwin Adams Davis
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