Talk:Stone County, Missouri

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This article's could use some cleaning up to match the style of an encyclopedia:

History section lacks any reference to source material. It appears the author has done considerable research, but without sources is unverifiable and may conflict with a source that I have.

The article mentions James Yocum being the first to settle Stone County at the mouth of the James River in 1790. Per "Journal of a tour into the interior of Missouri and Arkansaw, by H.R. Schoolcraft" -- Google Books (said being inferred to later in the article, but actually published in 1821) mentions on Page 43 (his page numbers, said also being 12/13/1818 of his journal) that:

"...the last hunter-settlement on the [White] river, which is, also, the most remote bound to which the white hunter has penetrated in a south-west direction from the Mississippi river, toward the rocky mountians (sic). It consist of two families, Holt and Fisher by name, who have located themselves here [at the mouth of Beaver Creek, south of present day Kissee Mills in Taney County, MO] within the last four months."

Furthermore, the same reference mentions encountering the settlement of J. Yochem (sic) approximately 6-miles below Bull Shoals (near present day Cotter, AR) on 1/13/1819 and stayed the night with him, and loaned his canoe to him for transport of furs, etc. They met back up at a trading post at the mouth of the Norfork R.

In general the History portion could be condensed to purely verifiable references. There is a good bit of "extraneous prose" regarding the character and religion of the early settlers that is unverified/unreferenced and would likely not apply ubiquitously to those people.

The Political section of this article seems to be overly lengthy, unreferenced, and include details not fitting of an encyclopedia. Please edit.

I would make these edits myself but figured I would allow the author(s) time to clean up their work. Thank you for your efforts.Jfisherster (talk) 16:14, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

History section removed as it was a copyright violation from The Early History of Stone County Missouri. Vsmith (talk) 20:31, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]