| International Standard Book Number |
9780063398122 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
0063398125 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Hale, Benjamin, author.
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| Title Statement |
Cave Mountain : a disappearance and a reckoning in the Ozarks / Benjamin Hale.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
287 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Sunday, April 29, 2001 -- Hale Holler -- Cave Mountain -- Dug Hollow -- The Buffalo National River wilderness -- The third step to joyful living -- The tribulation -- The child is not alive -- Anathema -- Nothing to forgive -- F.O.U. -- You have almost persuaded me -- Trust and obey -- Christ of the Ozarks -- Acknowledgments.
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| Summary, Etc. |
In 2001, a six-year-old girl disappeared on Cave Mountain in the Arkansas Ozarks, prompting one of the largest search-and-rescue efforts in the state's history. After she was found, her account of encountering an "imaginary friend" in the woods raised unsettling questions. More than two decades earlier, another young girl vanished in the same wilderness under circumstances involving a religious group, allegations of manipulation, violence, and apocalyptic beliefs. Blending investigative reporting with elements of memoir and regional history, Cave Mountain examines the connections between the two cases while exploring themes of faith and skepticism, memory, survival, and the cultural landscape of northern Arkansas.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Hale, Benjamin Family.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Missing children Arkansas Case studies.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Missing persons Investigation Arkansas Case studies.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Kidnapping Arkansas Case studies.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Cults History. Arkansas
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Search and rescue operations Arkansas.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Worship History Arkansas.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Ozark Mountains.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Creative nonfiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
True crime stories.
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