Ghosts of the Saline River


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Chapter One ………………… 1-22 Dedication to Curry Martin Preface by Paul L. Maier, ph.d., litt.d., ll.d. Introduction History of the Saline River Crow’s Station – a Gambler’s Lookout Ozment Bluff A Bulldog for Jesus No Hair on her Belly Get There Eli A Preacher and his Gun The Real Story of David and Goliath The Gold Headed Walking Cane A One-hundred Year Lease Steamboat Captain Bob Withers The Longview Ferry An Accidental Shooting Three Brother-in-laws Horse Head Bend Amelia’s’ Signal Riverboat Captains Waiting for a full dozen Saline Riverboats The Steamboat Handy The Saline Waterfall Ignorant Bend Curry Martin and the Monster Boats A Moment of Decision Ten-foot Alligator Gar A Shooting at Pine Island A New Tent from Sears Buffalo Dinner Curry Style Trapping on Franklin Creek Passed Out Naked with No Sheets Never a Dull Moment The Coon Man The Old Green Jeepster Somber Moments When the Irish Eyes are Shining	Chapter Two ………………… 22-34 John Wheeler Not a Dry Eye in the House Terrapin Tom The Resold Chicken Reclaiming Dead Head Logs The Leonard Rice Story The Oold Hamilton Farm A Cardboard Note The Clio Lumber Company Shootings The Bradley Camp Mayberry Nicholson Jim Young The Price of a Slave Samuel Nicodemus McKinney The Old Yellow Toyota Clois and his Bird gun Nick and the Zoo The Gaff Hook The Last to Cross the Bridge Dr. Livingstone I Presume Do Those Things Hurt? Stanley on the Saline The Ingham Plantation The Discovery of the Source of the Nile	Chapter Three ………………… 35-50 Walter Melton & the old Monticello Bridge Cow Ford Buck & Bill Gold in a Blue Granite Basin Creatures Falling from the Sky A Bed of Snakes Arkansas Pearl Boom Desoto and the Saline The Saline River Big Foot The Jackman Trail Monster The Monster at Tull The Apeman of Sardis Road Uncle John Sullins Ghosts of Past Saline River Residents The Ghost Train A Plate Filled with Blood The Old Allen House in Monticello The Ghosts of Marks’ Mill Battleground The Largest Living thing in Arkansas The Villages of Prague & Old Belfast The Shoppach House Fountain Hill Bonnie & Clyde The Village of Johnsville Colonel Hampton’s Gin House Snake Creek Dunk’s Gold The Naming of Johnsville The Old Gee Shop Solomon Gardner’s Wedding Suit The Saline River Madam Gambling, Girls, & Guzzling The Mansion A Fourteen-month Prison Sentence Double Buckshot A Shoot-out in Warren Godfrey Landing	Chapter Four ………………… 51-64 Twenty-five Ears of Corn Camp Quapaw Crazy Jack Boyscout Troop 55 Armadillo Island Three Dollars a Day The New Madrid Earthquake The Shelton Home Old Negro John Rafting the River Madstones & Rabid Dogs Giant Red Oaks Saline Gumbo The Naming of the Saline The Busche Brother’s Rampage Cane Break Mischief The Rhodes Double Hanging Jesse & Frank James Mount Elba Lnding Two & One Half Hours Civil War Battles Early Surveyors Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge The Best Kept Secret The Saline River Bridges Fender & the Buttermilk Railroad Owensville Dynamite Fishing Piranha in Arkansas The Canon Ball House of Guess Creek The Pontoon Bridge
Chapter Five ………………… 64-79 The Wheeler Trace Road Spanky & Joe John Murrell’s Treasure The White Onion The Salem Campground The Andrews’ Houseboat Possum Valley Bottom Terms The Village of Tull Button & the Pea Thrasher Yellow Jackets & Pentecostals Mule Ball Big Boy & the Flying Chicken Leg Banjo Jack The Dam Fight A Woman, her Cow, & the Federals Give em Air – Give em Air! A Saline Escape A Night in the Saline Swamp The John Carter Wood Murder Bear Hunting on the River Sling Blade A Saline River Tavern The Pavilion The Mule Brigade Saline River Indians Indian Burial Mounds Reburying the Dead Saracen the Hero The Caddo Indians	Chapter Six ………………… 81-101 Salt Manufacturing Ferry Crossings Alligator Gar The Four Forks of the Saline The Source of the Saline The Other Saline River in Arkansas Laid Out During Store Hours Saline Gypsies Swinging Bridges The Covered Bridge The Cow Trough Delivery The Alum Fork The Hanging of Tom Staner Outlaw Tom Slaughter Wildcat Moonshine & Elephants The Whiskey Rebellion Rabbit Foot Mine Traskwood & the Horsefly Diet A Sunbonnet & a Bible The Middle Fork Murders The Sonny Lamb Shooting The Saline River at Pool The Bonfire Mail Delivery The Train Wreck Cremation July 4th Celebrations Rotarians on the River The Community at Stillion A Two-story Saw Mill The Downfall of Stillion A Saline Whipping Abandoned Babies Hell in My Britches Leola Cunningham Indian Dugout Canoes The Hughes Indian Mounds The Hanging of Pherebe The Twice Murdered Will Traylor The Kidnapping of Wit Stephens Mills Along the Saline Fire in a Horn River Rats The Slab Town Flu Epidemic Pioneer Doctors	Chapter Seven ………………… 101-117 The Stolen Grapevine The Preacher with a Nasal Drawl Bootleggers & Bragging Rights Cullen Montgomery Baker The Saline River Massacre The Revenge of a Battered Wife High Water Tragedies Nothing But Splinters Longview as it Used To Be The Woodpecker & the Judge The Prayer that Moved a Bear The Longview Ferry A Booming Village Longview & the Steamboats The Village of Crowsville Railroads over the Saline The Saline River Train Wreck Two Riverboat Captains A Second Story of Saline Exploits The Steamboat Morgan Nelson A Watchful Eye The Witherington Plantation A Wagonload of Silver Belt Buckles The Sale of the Morgan Nelson The Murder of Gus Witherington Camp Mansfield The Cow Pattie Challenge Saline River Landings Collecting Mayhaws The Panther & the Bus The Pulley Swing Trotlines & Campfires The Longview Camps	Chapter Eight ………………… 118 -127 The Saline & Moro Bay The Old Steel Bridges Wild Pigs at the Camp Unpredictable River Travel Tales, Memories, & Yarns Old Fort Buss Lost Canons Sulphur Pits River Boundaries The White Oak Post Office The Pitts-Wilson Home Pool Access A Long Walk Home Four Hundred Years of History White Oak Community David O. Dodd The Prophet’s Chamber Hooper Ford The Killing of John McCool The Execution of Tommy Black The Hanging of T. A. Morris The Mad Ax Man A Bloody Saddle Brass Knuckles Run, Billy, Run! Sneed Gang Shootout Conclusion

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