Christian County

Ephraim Greenhall, one of the original settlers of the remote community of Mount Judy in Newton County, Arkansas, remembered killing 72 deer in one year.

In Christian County, Missouri, Isaac Workman claimed to have killed as many as 50 turkeys in a day and boasted of killing four deer one morning before breakfast.

The remoter parts of the Ozarks may not have been the hunter's paradise they were 50 years earlier, but they were good enough to attract settlers from east of the Mississippi, whose wildlife had long since been thinned out.

Writing from the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee in 1848, John Barksdale told a relative living in Shannon County, Missouri, quote, I would like to see your country to know whether I would be well satisfied.

I tell you what, we are glad that you're here today.

And you're a fellow Christian County citizen with me down there in Nixon, Missouri.

And Tim, I got to listen to him the other day, Judge Cruz, Jessica Cruz, one of the judges in Christian County, has a meeting every once in a while.

And she had a good turnout.

And when we're talking about things that happen in children's division court and looking at the foster care