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The Ozarks: An American Survival of Primitive Society (Chronicles of the Ozarks)

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Vance Randolph used to be perfectly constituted for his role as the chronicler of Ozark folkways. As a self-described “hack author,” he used to be as much a figure of the margins as his chosen subjects, whilst his essentially romantic identification with the region he first visited as the vacationing child of mainstream parents used to be encouraged by editors and tempered by his scientific training. In The Ozarks, in the beginning published in 1931, we’ve Randolph’s first book-length portrait of the people he would spend the next half-century studying. The full range of Randolph’s interests—in language, in hunting and fishing, in folksongs and play parties, in moonshining—is on view in this book that made his name; without end after he used to be “Mr. Ozark,” the region’s preeminent expert who would, in collection after collection, enlarge and deepen his debut effort. With a new introduction by Robert Cochran, The Ozarks is the second one entry in the Chronicles of the Ozarks series, a reprint series so that it will make to be had probably the most Depression Era’s Ozarks books. An image shaper in its day, a cultural artifact for decades to come, this wonderful book is as entertaining as ever.

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