{"product_id":"ozark-voices-9781476686172","title":"Ozark Voices","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   Discover the stories passed down over time from the people of the Ozark region. Oral history is shared through the years to provide a perspective on the landscape and people who inhabit the beautiful, culturally rich area. These oral histories show essential connections among settlers in a challenging landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   Written to inspire history buffs, outdoor enthusiasts, travelers, tycoons in training and students of all ages, this path-breaking collection will take readers deep into a region averse to change, tricky to know, yet brimming with American culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\txiii\u003cbr\u003eForeword: Collecting Recollections by C. Ray Brassieur\u003cbr\u003ePreface: A Wagonload of Fire\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Backwoods Interviewing\u003cbr\u003ePart I: My First Ozark River Oral Histories: Headwaters—Setting Forth in Oral History\u003cbr\u003e1. King of the Ozark Rivers: Ralph \"Treehouse\" Brown\u003cbr\u003e2. Taking Care of His Creek: George Langenberg\u003cbr\u003e3. Highlights of Ozark Rivers Oral History\u003cbr\u003eMemoir: At Trails End Camp\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Working with the U.S. Forest Service: Techniques—Beginning in Oral History\u003cbr\u003e4. Palmer, Missouri: In the Valley of the Ghosts\u003cbr\u003e5. Grasshopper Hollow: Fieldwork in the Ozark's Largest Fen\u003cbr\u003e6. Establishing a Farm and Hunting Fox: Amel Martin\u003cbr\u003eSidebar: Alford Forest Wins New Lease on Life\u003cbr\u003eMemoir: Adirondack and Ozark Ancient Forests\u003cbr\u003ePart III: U.S. Geological Survey of Gravel and the River: Fieldwork—Researching Downstream and Up\u003cbr\u003e7. Gardening for a Life of Abundance: Ted and Kay Berger\u003cbr\u003e8. Gravelbars and a Thief at the Corn Crib: Rev. Cecil King\u003cbr\u003e9. \"We are losing this river…\": Jack Toll\u003cbr\u003eMemoir: Almost a Great Job for an Oral Historian\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: Marching with the Military Again: Enlistment—Public Service Interviewing in the Ozarks\u003cbr\u003e10. Hogs and Midwives: Interviews with Ft. Wood's Early Settlers\u003cbr\u003e11. The Lady with the Bull Dick Cane on TV: Aileen Hatch\u003cbr\u003e12. Missouri Moonshining Days: George Lane, Waynesville, MO\u003cbr\u003eSidebar: Ambrosia on the Piney\u003cbr\u003e13. The Cadillac Mayor of Crocker, Missouri: Norma Lea Mihalevich\u003cbr\u003eMemoir: Dancing with the Spirit of Vietnam, May 2014\u003cbr\u003ePart V: Journalism into History: Deadline—Every Day a New Story\u003cbr\u003e14. Two Special Parents for Special Children: The Earl Adamses\u003cbr\u003e15. Bass Fishing Tournament: Basil Bacon\u003cbr\u003e16. Area Inventor Looking for Business Partner: Louis Moore\u003cbr\u003eSidebar: Fine Art from White Oak Forests\u003cbr\u003e17. Local Prophet Carves Wide Swath: Rev. Joseph Jeffers\u003cbr\u003e18. From Birch Tree to the Battle of the Bulge and Back: Bill and Trudy Reed\u003cbr\u003e19. Exposé from a Newbie Election Judge\u003cbr\u003e20. A Day with the Rainbow Family: Ted Berger and Ronnie Jones\u003cbr\u003eMemoir: Holding the Feather: Reflections on the Rainbow Family\u003cbr\u003ePart VI: Making It as a Freelancer: Gigging—Community Culture from Diverse Angles\u003cbr\u003e21. La Guignolée—Fiddling in the New Year: Kent Beaulne\u003cbr\u003e22. Good Sports: A Burnham Sunday Tradition: Gini Webb Scudder\u003cbr\u003e23. A Visit with Bob Holt and Venae Heier\u003cbr\u003e24. View to the East: Country Folks Will Wave\u003cbr\u003e25. Route 66: African American History Along the Mother Road\u003cbr\u003eSidebar: Hard Traveling in the Ozarks\u003cbr\u003e26. Celebrating the Ozark Highlands Viticulture: Mary Codemo\u003cbr\u003e27. Visit with an Ozark Swamp Queen: The Nature Conservancy\u003cbr\u003e28. Video with Ralph \"Treehouse\" Brown and Others\u003cbr\u003e29. Voice as Fast as a Fiddle: Dancing at a Country Music Club\u003cbr\u003e30. Deliberate Lives: A Celebration of Three Missouri Masters\u003cbr\u003eMemoir: Hillbillies and Black Helicopters\u003cbr\u003ePart VII: Profiles, Portraits and Champions: Likeness—Capturing an Essence\u003cbr\u003e31. Healing the Waters on an Ozark Frontier\u003cbr\u003e32. Organic More Than a Century: Frances \"Nana\" Yeary\u003cbr\u003eSidebar: Is It True?\u003cbr\u003e33. Visiting Moondog in Manhattan\u003cbr\u003e34. Magic Quartz Near Mount Ida\u003cbr\u003e35. Selling Ties in an Early Blizzard\u003cbr\u003e36. A Man Who Loved Copperheads: Ken Carey\u003cbr\u003e37. An Ozarker in His New Kentucky Home: George Marshall Smith\u003cbr\u003e38. Clyde and the Recycled Chairs\u003cbr\u003e39. Woodcarvers: Harold and Elaine Enlow\u003cbr\u003eMemoir: Portrait of my Father as an Eminent Hillbilly: A Cautionary Tale\u003cbr\u003ePart VIII: Ethics, Activists and Timber: Hillbilly Ethics—Truth-tellin' and Rural Rapport\u003cbr\u003e40. The Sweetest Fiddler in All of Arkansas: Violet Hensley\u003cbr\u003e41. This Is the Ozark Earth: A Conversation with a River Conservationist\u003cbr\u003eSidebar: Rex Harrel's Best Story\u003cbr\u003e42. In Search of Commonwealth: In Memory of Doug Wixson\u003cbr\u003e43. Plonked in Nowheresville: Tristen Russ\u003cbr\u003eMemoir: From China's Skuzziest City—Teaching Oral History\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Bedrock, Paradox and Petroforms\u003cbr\u003eAppendix 1: A Brief Guide to Doing Oral History Interviews\u003cbr\u003eAppendix 2: Oral History Projects and Related Contributions\u003cbr\u003eAppendix 3: Oral and Community History Bibliography\u003cbr\u003eAppendix 4: Schedule of Questions: Oral History of Land Use in the Ozarks\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040496648535,"sku":"9781476686172","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476686172.jpg?v=1750946933","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ozark-voices-9781476686172","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}