Bushwhackers

The John Quincy Wolf whose memoirs are cited here was born in 1864 on a farm across the White River from Calico Rock, so the posse story belongs to his father's generation. After his parents died an aunt and uncle raised him; he worked briefly on a steamboat, then settled in Batesville as a banker. His son, a folklorist who died in 1971, shaped the recollections into a book, and the son's widow, Bess Millen Wolf, finished it. Lyon College's Wolf Collection says Life in the Leatherwoods covers the two decades after the Civil War.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Calico Rock Historic District — 0.7 mi
  A one-block railroad-era Main Street climbing a hillside above the White River, rebuilt in brick and stone after the 1923 fire, with a hotel of homemade cement blocks.
• Jacob Wolf House — 11 mi
  Arkansas's oldest public structure, a two-story dogtrot log house at the Norfork confluence that served as the Izard County courthouse in 1829 and later as a family home.
• Blanchard Springs Caverns — 11 mi
  A living limestone cave in the Ozark National Forest, opened to the public in 1973 on a spring that once ran a Confederate veteran's gristmill.
• Ozark Folk Center State Park — 17 mi
  A state park of working craftspeople, a herb garden and live mountain music at Mountain View, born of a 1963 folk festival and a plan to pay for a sewer.

More markers nearby

• Military Activity at Calico Rock — steps away
• Izard County First Courthouse — 13 mi
• Old Military Road — 16 mi
• Wild Haws in the Civil War — 16 mi