About the cover

Cover designed by Brian Huntley

Photographs by Annette Beard

Top: A mule jumps over the handmade jump poles at the 1985 Pea Ridge Mule Jump which included a coon dog hunting contest and was held on school grounds downtown.

Bottom left: A generational tradition of riding and jumping mules brings the John Higgins family to Pea Ridge from Green Top, Mo., year after year.

Bottom right: Peaches clears the pro jump easily encouraged by owner Kenny Vaught of Crane, Mo., in 2010.

Community on 10/11/2017