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| | University of Arkansas, Fayetteville: Lida W. Pyles Papers |
 | | Pyles was the author of several books, including the novel Stranger at the Gate, Tall Tales from the Hills, It Happened in the Ozarks, and Sense and Nonsense in Verse, a publication in book form of her newspaper column, a regular feature of the Mountain View Herald of Mountain View, Arkansas. |
 | | She recorded Ozark folk tales of the Ozarks and wrote "local color" newspaper articles, published in The Joplin Globe, The Oklahoma Farm World, The Sunday News and Leader of Springfield, Missouri, The Carthage Press, Country World, the Times-Echo of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and The Tulsa World, among others, from the nineteen-fifties to the nineteen-seventies. |
 | | Lida Wilson Pyles of Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri, donated her papers and photographs to Special Collections on September 10, 1987. |
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