<P> Modern author Krista McGruder, a native of the Ozarks, entitled her first collections of short stories "Beulah Land". </P> <P> Mary Lee Settle, National Book Award winner for Blood Ties, 1978, wrote a series of novels called the Beulah Land quintet, beginning with O Beulah Land in 1956 . </P> <P> Oregonian novelist H.L. Davis, best known for his 1935 Pulitzer Prize--winning Honey in the Horn, wrote a 1949 novel called Beulah Land about the travails and westward travels of a family of Cherokee Indians from the Southeastern United States . A coffee shop and bar called Beulahland (one word) in Portland, Oregon, is possibly named after Davis' novel . </P> <P> Songwriter Drew Nelson won international acclaim with the 2009 album "Dusty Road to Beulah Land", produced by Michael Crittenden of Mackinaw Harvest Music . The album has been described as "a love song to the state of Michigan ." Local community radio station WYCE in Grand Rapids, Michigan awarded the album "Best Local Album" at the 2010 Jammie Awards . </P>

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