The Baxter County Historical and Geneological Society will present a book outlining a murder in the 1800s during its next meeting. “Murder, Mayhem, and Northern Arkansas’s Civil War that Refused to End” by Brooks Blevins will be the topic of discussion at the meeting scheduled for Tuesday evening at six in the Knox Room of the Donald W. Reynolds Library.
The presentation will be about the 1868 murder of Fulton County’s Freedmen’s Bureau agent and a miniature Civil War that broke out afterward. During this period of history, Baxter County was part of Fulton County, and the men accused of the murder lived in present-day Baxter County.
Blevins is originally from Izard County and currently serves as a historian and the Noel Boyd Professor of the Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University in Springfield. He has also authored five books and edited two others including “Hill Folks: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image,” “Arkansas/Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol’ Boys Defined a State” and “Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South.
Blevins’ next book is titled “The Old Ozarks,” and it’s the first volume in a trilogy on the history of the Ozarks. It will be released in the spring by the University of Illinois Press.
For more information, contact the Historical Society at 870-425-2551, go online to baxtercountyhistory.org, or visit their Facebook page.
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