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Volume XV Number I (1992)
Boone County Historian Volume XV Number I (1992)

Volume XV Number I (1992)
Cover picture : James B. Frew	433
Cover picture : headstone of James B. Frew	433
Cover picture : Camp Red Cloud (now Ft. Robinson, Nebraska)	433
President's Column by Roy L. Baker, Jr.	435
Index	435
Picture : Sammie Rose award	435
Frontier Log Cabin, by John Riddlesperger	436
Picture : John Henry Riddlesperger (1832-1913)	436
Picture : Log cabin built by John Henry Riddlesperger in 1878	436
Boone County Arkansas Marriage Index Book No. 1, [Hewitt-Holmes] 1869-c1940	437-438
Recent Donations	439
Third Annual Reunion of Alpena Alumni, Saturday, May 23, 1992	439
Books for Sale at the Museum	439
Private James B. Frew's Diary and Letters from the Great Sioux War of 1876	440-443, 448-455
Dry Jordan Homesteader Thomas Lamb, by Julie Marie Hoberock	444-447
Picture : Thomas Lamb's 1856 homestead certificate	444-445
Picture : Dianna, Julie and Dr. Thomas Hoberock, with cistern top at Thomas Lamb homestead	446
Picture : Dr. Thomas Hoberock, Julie and Dianna at built-up grave of Thomas Lamb	446
New Books by Marilyn Smith	447
Picture : James Barcas Frew, his father George Frew, and other sons in Frew Saddlery in Harrison	454
Picture : J. B. Frew and his dog "Bess," whose head was used as a saddle pattern	455
Picture : Peggy Reeves, Frew's granddaughter, with leather beaded Indian horse tack	455
Picture : James Barcas Frew family (Nellie Frew, Jennie Frew, Isa Frew, J. Bentley Frew, James Barcas Frew, Abigale Frew, Charley Frew, George W. Frew and George M. Frew)	455
Queries	456

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Volume XV Number II (1992)
Boone County Historian Volume XV Number II (1992)

Volume XV Number II (1992)
Cover picture : Bower Brothers Manufacturing Company on the corner of Central, Walnut and Stephenson streets in Harrison	457
President's Column by Roy L. Baker, Jr.	459
Index	459
Recipe for Consumption	459
Vachel Hickman, by David A. Matthews	460
Picture : Vachel Hickman	460
Recollections of Past Fourth of July Picnics, by June Hutcheson	461-463
Picture : Lead Hill Picnic, 1906	461
New Books by Marilyn Smith	464
Books For Sale at the Museum	464
Boone County Arkansas Marriage Index Book No. 1, [Holliday-Hudson] 1869-c1940	465-467
Artifacts Loaned and Donated	468
The Bower Family - Pioneers of Boone County, by Maryetta Bower McGaughey	469-479
Picture : Sons of Mr. and Mrs. George Bower - Edwin (Ned) Bower, Harry Bower, Herbert Alexander Bower, George Bower, Frankland Bower and William Adam Bower	469
Picture : Daughters of Mary Roberta Frankland and George Bower - Lillian, Lena Margaret, Mabel and Madalene	470
Picture : Wilma Bower Taylor and her gray kitty "Buster" riding bareback on horse "Snowball" in 1916	477
Queries	479-480

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Volume XV Number III (1992)
Boone County Historian Volume XV Number III (1992)

Volume XV Number III (1992)
Cover picture : Joe Middleton house at Burlington	481
Cover picture : Wash Middleton	481
Cover picture : James L. Holt	481
President's Column by Roy L. Baker, Jr.	483
Index	483
Jim Holt's Arrest Attempt Ends in Wash Middleton's Death at Parthenon, by Sammie Rose and Pat Wood	484-488
Picture : The spring behind the general store at Parthenon	484
Picture : The general store still stands in Parthenon	484
Picture : Little Buffalo Cemetery	487
Picture : Fieldstone head stone thought to be the marker of Wash Middleton	487
New Books by Marilyn Smith	489
Books for Sale at the Museum	489
Artifacts Loaned and Donated	490
Boone County Arkansas Marriage Index Book No. 1, [Hubbard-Hyser] 1869-c1940	491-493
Recent Donations	493
Mt. Range Divides Huzzah Prairie and Crooked Creek Valley, by anonymous author, late 1930s - submitted by Mike Holt	494-497
Picture : Overlooking Gaither and the Crooked Creek Valley from Gaither Mountain	494
Picture : Vikki, Linten and Walter McElroy at a log house near Doss Spring on their farm in what was Huzzah Prairie	494
Picture : Paul Turney and one of his dogs at his home in the 1930s on the left of Doss Spring	495
Picture : June Young, daughter of Paul and Mildred Turney at Doss Spring	495
Pictures : Cabin of John McCager Jones, built after the Civil War at the base of Sulphur Mountain	496
Blazing a Trail from Swan Creek to Carrollton, from the Harrison Times, January 20, 1883	498-499
Pictures : Centennial Observance marker & a stately old chimney at Old Carrollton	498
Index to Boone County Probate Court Records, Volumes A to HC (1869-1943) [Smith-White]	499-501
Newspapers Wanted	502
Missing Boone County Newspapers	502-503
Queries	503-504

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Volume XV Number IV (1992)
Boone County Historian Volume XV Number IV (1992)

Volume XV Number IV (1992)
Cover picture : Col. George J. Crump, Judge Issac Parker, and the Old U. S. Jail, Fort Smith, Arkansas	505
President's Column by Roy L. Baker, Jr.	507
Index	507
Picture : Museum volunteer Tessa Chamas-Bacha	507
Museum Docents (pictures)	508-509
Recent Donors	510
Books for Sale at the Museum	510
Lifetime Members of Boone County Historical & Railroad Society, Inc.	511
Financial Report - Boone County Historical & Railroad Society, Inc.	512
Artifacts Loaned and Donated	513
Keepers of "The Gates of Hell": A Narrative on George J. Crump, U. S. Marshal, by Sammie Rose & Pat Wood	514-519
Picture : The hanging of Cherokee Bill on the Fort Smith gallows	514
Picture : George J. Crump family circa 1919 - Mintie Helen Crump Garvin, Josephine, B. Wright Crump, Josie Crump Trimble, George J. Crump, Jr., Arch Crump, Col. George Crump, Lulu Greenlee Scott	516
Picture : House built by Col. George J. Crump in 1874	517
Boone County Arkansas Marriage Index Book No. 1, [Iness-Jolly] 1869-c1940	520-524
Our Town (Harrison, Arkansas), poem by Audra Milum	524
Museum Programs & Railroad Day pictures	525
Index to Boone County Probate Court Records, Volumes A to HC (1869-1943) [White-Zeigler]	526-527
Picture : Boone County Heritage Museum float in the annual Northwest Arkansas District Fair Parade	527
Queries	528

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Boone County Historical & Railroad Society, Inc.
P.O. Box 1094
Harrison, AR 72601