Shepherd of the Hills Country: Tourism Transforms the Ozarks, 1880s-1930s

List of illustrations, preface, introduction, notes, works cited, index. $24.00, paper.) In the final chapter of Shepherd of the Hills Country: Tourism Transforms the Ozarks, 7880s-1930s, Lynn Morrow and Linda Myers-Phinney observe that the persistence of the Ozark image or stereotype has discouraged scholarly "analytical and interpretive works about the generations of Ozark settlement" (p. 198). Concentrating on the upper White River Valley in Stone and Taney Counties, Missouri, Morrow and Myers-Phinney stress the modernizing impact of tourism on this semi-arrested frontier region and its inhabitants beginning in the 1880s. Chapter six explores the myriad modernizing and commercializing effects of the arrival of the railroad in the first decade of the twentieth century and of the introduction of automobile traffic just a decade later: lakeside resorts, YMCA and church retreats, and conscious perpetuation of the hillbilly image by entrepreneurs and even locals.