Download or read book Wild Stories from the Ozarks written by Vance Randolph and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wild Stories from the Ozarks written by Vance Randolph and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ozark Tales and Superstitions written by Phillip W. Steele and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1983-05-30 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of authentic Ozark lore with twenty-six tales from Native American legends to stories of outlaws, treasure, and the supernatural. The dramatic history and breathtaking landscape of the Ozarks have fostered a diverse and compelling tradition of storytelling. In Ozark Tales and Superstitions, Western author and historian Phillip Steele collects twenty-six stories that preserve and showcase the rich lore of this region. Here are tales of the supernatural including “Lady of the Valley” and “Monster of Peter Bottom Cave,” Indian legends such as “Legend of the War Eagle” and “Legend of Virgin’s Bluff,” treasure tales, outlaw stories, nature lore, plus a collection of superstitions, moon signs, weather signs, and regional cures and remedies.
Download or read book Foraging the Ozarks written by Bo Brown and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ozark Mountains in Missouri and Arkansas have had a long history of foraging since indigenous tribes such as the Osage, Quapaw, and Kickapoo sporadically inhabited the area and utilized the rich natural resources. Settlers from the Appalachians came later and survived on what they could find, trap, and hunt. Foraging remains a major activity among the Ozarks’ outdoor community, supported in large part by established local restaurateurs and other buyers of wild herbs, berries, and nuts. Foraging the Ozarks, written by local wilderness expert Bo Brown, highlights about a hundred commonly found edibles in the Interior Highlands, from ubiquitous herbs to endemic species. With sidebars, recipes, helpful tips, and toxin warnings throughout, Foraging the Ozarks is the only guidebook the Ozark outdoor enthusiast will need to pick it, cook it, and eat it.
Download or read book Ozark Superstitions written by Vance Randolph and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people who live in the Ozark country of Missouri and Arkansas were, until very recently, the most deliberately unprogressive people in the United States. Descended from pioneers who came West from the Southern Appalachians at the beginning of the nineteenth century, they made little contact with the outer world for more than a hundred years. They seem like foreigners to the average urban American, but nearly all of them come of British stock, and many families have lived in America since colonial days. Their material heirlooms are few, but like all isolated illiterates they have clung to the old songs and obsolete sayings and outworn customs of their ancestors. Sophisticated visitors sometimes regard the “hillbilly” as a simple child of nature, whose inmost thoughts and motivations may be read at a glance. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The hillman is secretive and sensitive beyond anything that the average city dweller can imagine, but he isn’t simple. His mind moves in a tremendously involved system of signs and omens and esoteric auguries. He has little interest in the mental procedure that the moderns call science, and his ways of arranging data and evaluating evidence are very different from those currently favored in the world beyond the hilltops. The Ozark hillfolk have often been described as the most superstitious people in America. It is true that some of them have retained certain ancient notions which have been discarded and forgotten in more progressive sections of the United States. It has been said that the Ozarker got his folklore from the Negro, but the fact is that Negroes were never numerous in the hill country, and there are many adults in the Ozarks today who have never even seen a Negro. Another view is that the hillman’s superstitions are largely of Indian origin, and there may be a measure of truth in this; the pioneers did mingle freely with the Indians, and some of our best Ozark families still boast of their Cherokee blood. My own feeling is that most of the hillman’s folk beliefs came with his ancestors from England or Scotland. I believe that a comparison of my material with that recorded by British antiquarians will substantiate this opinion.
Download or read book A History of the Ozarks Volume 1 written by Brooks Blevins and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geologic forces raised the Ozarks. Myth enshrouds these hills. Human beings shaped them and were shaped by them. The Ozarks reflect the epic tableau of the American people—the native Osage and would-be colonial conquerors, the determined settlers and on-the-make speculators, the endless labors of hardscrabble farmers and capitalism of visionary entrepreneurs. The Old Ozarks is the first volume of a monumental three-part history of the region and its inhabitants. Brooks Blevins begins in deep prehistory, charting how these highlands of granite, dolomite, and limestone came to exist. From there he turns to the political and economic motivations behind the eagerness of many peoples to possess the Ozarks. Blevins places these early proto-Ozarkers within the context of larger American history and the economic, social, and political forces that drove it forward. But he also tells the varied and colorful human stories that fill the region's storied past—and contribute to the powerful myths and misunderstandings that even today distort our views of the Ozarks' places and people. A sweeping history in the grand tradition, A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1: The Old Ozarks is essential reading for anyone who cares about the highland heart of America.
Download or read book Ozark Outdoors written by Vance Randolph and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wild Honey from the Hills written by Virgil L. Todd and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book We Always Lie to Strangers written by Vance Randolph and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1974 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wild Ass of the Ozarks written by Raymond Arsenault and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shepherd of the Hills written by Harold Bell Wright and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Country Year written by Sue Hubbell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her 30-year marriage broke up, Hubbell retreated to the country where she found solace in the natural world.
Download or read book Legends Of The Ozarks written by James William Buel and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Pioneers of the Ozarks written by Lennis Leonard Broadfoot and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oil and charcoal portraits with explanatory stories in Ozark dialect.
Download or read book Legends of the Ozarks Classic Reprint written by J. W. Buel and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Legends of the Ozarks But a few years will elapse when the wild, untutored fathers of America will have departed forever; the last generation of the Red Man will disappear like shadows before the zenith flash of Caucasian civilization, and only their wierd traditions and bright-fancied legends will remain to remind the white man of the primeval settlers of the greatest Republic that floats a banner 'neath the stars. The beautiful imagery and day dreams of the savage, the paradise of his hopes, the ambition of his unexampled nature, the love which he never otherwise exhibited, and the superstitions which the wild and lonesome forests created in him, are worthy of perpetuation. They serve to soften the aspersions cast upon the Indians character and ennoble a nature which, in the eyes of the progressive and unsympathetic white man, is pronounced immovable and destitute of moral instincts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Ozark Tall Tales written by Richard Young and published by August House Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authentic mountain tales such as hill folk have told for centuries, including such favorites as The One-Bullet Hunt, as well as jokes and pen-and-ink drawings by W.E. Hall.
Download or read book The Bodacious Ozarks written by Charles Morrow Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real challenge of the Ozarks, the remote hill country of Arkansas and Missouri, is how to get a living out of the land. It can be done, but there are times when the only dependable backhills crop seems to be the storytelling
