Otto Ernest Rayburn, an early promoter of the Ozarks

From: The Arkansas Historical Quarterly | Date: July 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

OTTO ERNEST RAYBURN (1891-1960) spent virtually his entire adult life publishing magazines about the Ozarks region. He envisioned the Ozarks as an American Arcadia, with breathtaking scenery and a stalwart AngloSaxon culture, and published thousands of pages promoting its attractions. Gradually, however, it dawned upon him that the more people knew about his Arcadian paradise, the less like paradise it would be.

Rayburn never made much money at publishing regional magazines. He persisted, however, for more than forty years and earned a place among the romantics, scholars, and promoters who, ...

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