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.
 * 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)
 * 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)