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The African american River moves from Missouri into Arkansas, east of Branson and western of the Bootheel. It meanders where the foothills of the Ozarks commence to rise out of the Mississippi plain. The area was sparsely filled when E. R. Coleman was a man. Just like the population they offered, businesses were modest, mostly small, and spread. Arkansas was still the Carry Condition; 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 designed by the Great Depression, by a family group ethic that dictated working so long as there was natural light in the day, and by an area bordered on the western by Oklahoma's Dirt Dish and on the east by the mighty - sometimes vengeful - Mississippi River. Informed in his own words, this is a genuine American Horatio Alger story of hardscrabble beginnings, working much longer and harder than today's youngsters might be able to imagine, and ordinary dealing from natural cotton fields to table rooms.
