Download or read book Ozark Mountain Odyssey written by Silver Nightingale and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen-year-old Sierra Belden, who had trusted Christ as Savior at an early age, had been born and raised in the Sacramento Valley where she loved the many magnificent northern California mountains and coastal redwoods, enjoyed hiking or skiing the slopes of the California Sierra Nevada Mountains, for which she was named. She enjoyed the wintry ridges of the glacier-crowned Cascade Range and delighted in the slopes of the Rockies in Colorado. But a different scene of grandeur awaited her in the Ozarks when she moved to enter a Bible college in Springfield, Missouri. In this odyssey, Godas special plan for her life starts to unfold. Sierra will learn that all is not a mountain-top experience. Sojourn with her when she falls in love, experiences heartbreak and personal tragedy, yet maturing as Godas child, learning to follow the path her Heavenly Father had chosen for her.
Download or read book An Ozark Odyssey written by William Childress and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. W. Childress loved farming but was lousy at it. His family--including his wife, children, and stepson--toiled as sharecroppers and migrant workers in fields of cotton, broomcorn, and peanuts in the Ozarks of Missouri and Oklahoma and were continually defeated by hardship and agrarian ineptitude as they struggled to stay united amid adversity. In An Ozark Odyssey: The Journey of a Father and Son, William Childress recalls the life of his late, irascible but lovable stepfather--his bad decisions, his misfit marriage, his prickly personality, and his gypsying ways that impoverished the family. Stirred to recount humorous anecdotes from a peripatetic childhood, and including tales of coming-of-age in the Korean War and his own experiences with marriage and fatherhood, Childress tells a story of family bonds, wandering and struggle, privation and joy, quarrels, hard times, and the courage to brave the familiar. In doing so, he comes to terms with his enormous affection for a man who never expressed affection, while also coming to terms with his affection for the landscapes and lifestyle that ensured poverty and hardship for his family. As Childress demonstrates through charismatic storytelling, wit, and a humor tempered by the ghosts of a hardscrabble youth, the Childress family learned that security is mostly illusion but that giving up is no solution. An Ozark Odyssey covers J. W.'s journey from age seven to his death at age eighty-two, through marriage and divorce and reconciliation, four children, extreme poverty, restlessness, bankruptcies, and at last, a little recompense. Against all odds, he died well off, leaving his children a successful Ozark ranch.
Download or read book An Ozark Odyssey written by William Childress and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. W. Childress loved farming but was lousy at it. His familyincluding his wife, children, and stepsontoiled as sharecroppers and migrant workers in fields of cotton, broomcorn, and peanuts in the Ozarks of Missouri and Oklahoma and were continually defeated by hardship and agrarian ineptitude as they struggled to stay united amid adversity. In "An Ozark Odyssey: The Journey of a Father and Son, "William Childress recalls the life of his late, irascible but lovable stepfatherhis bad decisions, his misfit marriage, his prickly personality, and his gypsying ways that impoverished the family. Stirred to recount humorous anecdotes from a peripatetic childhood, and including tales of coming-of-age in the Korean War and his own experiences with marriage and fatherhood, Childress tells a story of family bonds, wandering and struggle, privation and joy, quarrels, hard times, and the courage to brave the familiar. In doing so, he comes to terms with his enormous affection for a man who never expressed affection, while also coming to terms with his affection for the landscapes and lifestyle that ensured poverty and hardship for his family. As Childress demonstrates through charismatic storytelling, wit, and a humor tempered by the ghosts of a hardscrabble youth, the Childress family learned that security is mostly illusion but that giving up is no solution. "An Ozark Odyssey "covers J. W. s journey from age seven to his death at age eighty-two, through marriage and divorce and reconciliation, four children, extreme poverty, restlessness, bankruptcies, and at last, a little recompense. Against all odds, he died well off, leaving his children a successful Ozark ranch."
Download or read book An Ozark Odyssey written by School of the Ozarks. English Department and published by . This book was released on 1984* with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bittersweet Resort written by Thelma Rea and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bittersweet Resort is a warm, funny memoir about the eleven years Dick and Thelma Rea survived the Ozarks. In 1971 they bought nine run-down cottages on Table Rock Lake and rented them out for $11 to $17 a day. Meet their memorable neighbors, including the man who kept his dead mother in a Kenmore freezer for 56 days, trying to resurrect her. Follow the escapades of their guests: many are hilarious, some bittersweet, and a few tragic. Experience the awakening of a backward mountain country, brought to life by an amazing chain of five lakes straddling Missouri and Arkansas, built by the Corps of Engineers. Visit Branson before it became a country music phenomenon. This is a story of transformation. The Rea children adapt to a school built by the WPA in 1936-a one-hour bus ride from their remote home. Dick progresses from New York City executive to carpenter/plumber/man-of-all-trades. Thelma steers the neglected resort into a popular destination. Take this journey with them. Travel back to a simpler time. You'll wish you had been a guest at Bittersweet Resort.
Download or read book Ozark Odyssey written by Marion Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book GI Odyssey written by Harold Flagg and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-12-10 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GI Odyssey is a highly enjoyable tour de force about a teenager’s coming-of-age during World War II. Harry “Harold Flagg” Bandera writes his story in third person and uses mental time travel to depict life on an Ohio farm, sightseeing in Paris, skiing in Switzerland, meeting English cousins by the dozens, earning a university degree, and surviving $90,000 worth of cancer treatments—all on Uncle Sam’s tab. Come, crawl between the sheets, and read how it all went down.
Download or read book The Adventures in the Ozark Mountains written by Henry Schoolcraft and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scenes and Adventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas is the first written account of a European-American exploration of the Ozarks. "These early adventures in the Ozarks comprehend my first exploratory effort in the great area of the West. To traverse the plains and mountain elevations west of the Mississippi, which had once echoed the tramp of the squadrons of De Soto—to range over hills, and through rugged defiles, which he had once searched in the hope of finding mines of gold and silver rivalling those of Mexico and Peru; and this, too, coming as a climax to the panorama of a long, long journey from the East—constituted an attainment of youthful exultation and self-felicitation, which might have been forgotten with its termination. But the incidents are perceived to have had a value of a different kind. They supply the first attempt to trace the track of the Spanish cavaliers west of the Mississippi. The name of De Soto is inseparably connected with the territorial area of Missouri and Arkansas, which he was the first European to penetrate, and in the latter of which he died."
Download or read book Not by Sight Ozark Mountain Trilogy Book 1 written by Kathy Herman and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her Sister Couldn't Be Alive . . . Could She? It had to be Riley Jo. She was certain . . . wasn't she? But when Abby Cummings tells her mother she thought she saw her sister at the store, her mother quickly dismisses the idea. After all, Riley Jo and their father had been missing for years. Presumably dead. Yet Abby cannot ignore her intuition. Telling her friend J. D., they investigate. But J. D. may know more about the disappearance than he's telling, or even realizes. And as they work to uncover what happened, all they have to go on is blind faith. Will it be enough . . . especially considering what the truth might be?
Download or read book An Ozark Mountain Waltz written by Fern Croley Jones and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Croley family comes to the Ozark Mountains to find shelter from the realities of life during the Great Depression, they find a new home in an old wooden cabin borrowed from a friend. As time goes by, they find more than a new start. They find neighbors willing to help, discover the value of having a sense of humor, and regain hope. This story comes from actual written letters and verbal accounts from the family and their friends. These accounts tell of the music, the faith found in hymn
Download or read book Deep Wounds written by Jared Bellis and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danger lurks deep beneath the Ozarks and it's up to Marius and friends to stop it! A danger from Carl's past appears when Marius is least prepared to handle it. Mourning lost friends and doubting his own sanity, Jimmy has to rely on old friends and new to combat their enemies' newest plan. Their quest leads them deep underground to find clues. Can Carl's past help them save their future? Or will they succumb to Deep Wounds?
Download or read book An Ozark Odyssey written by John W. Voight and published by . This book was released on 1958* with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flat Rock Journal written by Ken Carey and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback--"A Thoreau-voiced memoir of a day off spent recharging the author's batteries by his lonesome in the Ozark woods. . . . A model of moss-velvet nature writing, quite possibly a classic" (Kirkus Reviews). Carey is the author of The Starseed Transmissions.
Download or read book Scenes and Adventures in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas written by Henry Schoolcraft and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scenes and Adventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas is the first written account of a European-American exploration of the Ozarks. "These early adventures in the Ozarks comprehend my first exploratory effort in the great area of the West. To traverse the plains and mountain elevations west of the Mississippi, which had once echoed the tramp of the squadrons of De Soto—to range over hills, and through rugged defiles, which he had once searched in the hope of finding mines of gold and silver rivalling those of Mexico and Peru; and this, too, coming as a climax to the panorama of a long, long journey from the East—constituted an attainment of youthful exultation and self-felicitation, which might have been forgotten with its termination. But the incidents are perceived to have had a value of a different kind. They supply the first attempt to trace the track of the Spanish cavaliers west of the Mississippi. The name of De Soto is inseparably connected with the territorial area of Missouri and Arkansas, which he was the first European to penetrate, and in the latter of which he died."
Download or read book Scenes and Adventures in the Semi Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas written by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Southern Odyssey written by Sherwood Anderson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern Odyssey contains the best of Sherwood Anderson's writings about the region where he spent the last sixteen years of his life. In more than forty selections of journalism and fiction, Anderson explores the people and problems of the South. The pieces collected here present Anderson's perceptive vision of the South, combining his love for the region with the fresh observations of an outsider. His work reflects a range of issues that engaged all southerners at a crucial time in their history--the Great Depression, the influence of the New Deal, the painful transition from agriculture to mechanization, the struggle of labor to unionize, and the elemental divisions of race--always with an eye toward the human side of things. Anderson's impressions and convictions concerning his southern experience encompassed more than its troubles, however. He also wrote of the splendor of a Shenandoah spring and the strength of character of the native people. Southern Odyssey is more than a personal record--it is a gallery of southern portraits, drawn in the style that distinguishes Anderson's prose at its best.
Download or read book A Long Line of Forgetfulness People written by Imogene Coger Northcutt and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
