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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: A Life on the Black River in Arkansas Subtitle: A Pioneering Banker's Memoir Author: Ewell R. Coleman Narrator: Jeffrey W Goodrich Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins Language: English Release date: 03-04-16 Publisher: University Press Audiobooks Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: History, American Publisher's Summary: The Black River flows from Missouri into Arkansas, east of Branson and west of the Bootheel. It meanders where the foothills of the Ozarks begin to rise out of the Mississippi plain. The area was sparsely populated when E. R. Coleman was a young man. Like the population they served, businesses were modest, mostly small, and scattered. Arkansas was still the Bear State; slogans boasting that it was - or predicting that it would become - the "Land of Opportunity" were yet to be conceived. Coleman's early years were shaped by the Great Depression, by a family ethic that dictated working a