Author: W. K. McNeilPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781604738179
Category : Ozark Mountains Region
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Ozark Country
Author: W. K. McNeilPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781604738179
Category : Ozark Mountains Region
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Ozark Country
Author: Otto Ernest RayburnPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610757394
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Published just days before America’s entry into World War II, Ozark Country is Otto Ernest Rayburn’s love letter to his adopted region. One of several chronicles of the Ozarks that garnered national attention during the Depression and war years, when many Americans craved stories about people and places seemingly untouched by the difficulties of the times, Rayburn’s colorful tour takes readers from the fictional village of Woodville into the backcountry of a region teeming with storytellers, ballad singers, superstitions, and home remedies. Rayburn’s tales—fantastical, fun, and unapologetically romantic—portray a world that had already nearly disappeared by the time they were written. Yet Rayburn’s depiction of the Ozarks resonates with notions of the region that have persisted in the American consciousness ever since.
Ozark Country
Author: Otto Ernest RayburnPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1682261603
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Published just days before America’s entry into World War II, Ozark Country is Otto Ernest Rayburn’s love letter to his adopted region. One of several chronicles of the Ozarks that garnered national attention during the Depression and war years, when many Americans craved stories about people and places seemingly untouched by the difficulties of the times, Rayburn’s colorful tour takes readers from the fictional village of Woodville into the backcountry of a region teeming with storytellers, ballad singers, superstitions, and home remedies. Rayburn’s tales—fantastical, fun, and unapologetically romantic—portray a world that had already nearly disappeared by the time they were written. Yet Rayburn’s depiction of the Ozarks resonates with notions of the region that have persisted in the American consciousness ever since.
The Ozark Region, Its History and Its People
Author: Centennial History of Missouri
Author: Walter Barlow StevensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description
One hundred years ago
Author: Walter Barlow StevensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
Book Description
Missouri the Center State
Author: Walter Barlow StevensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Ozark Superstitions
Author: Vance RandolphPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473388244
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
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.
Ozark Rivers National Monument
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public LandsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National monuments
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Considers S. 1381, to establish the Ozark Rivers National Monument, Mo.
Author: