The Bodacious Ozarks

A bushelful of homespun tales, reflecting the cultivated history of the Ozarks’ land and people, from a third-generation Ozarker and Arkansas native. The real challenge of the bodacious (outright, unmistakable) 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 back hills crop seems to be the storytelling. An Ozarks story grows from the land and is never pure fiction; but one has never bee