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Vance Randolph was perfectly constituted for his role as the chronicler of Ozark folkways. As a self-described “hack writer,” he was as much a figure of the margins as his chosen subjects, even as his essentially romantic identification with the region he first visited as the vacationing child of mainstream parents was encouraged by editors and tempered by his scientific training. In The Ozarks, originally published in 1931, we have 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; forever after he was “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 OzarksChronicles of the Ozarks series, a reprint series that will make available some of the 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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Anything you can do to keep <i>The Ozarks</i> alive and in print is a gift to folklorists and regional writers. Randolph was a proud Ozarker and a fine, zesty writer, a wit, a charmer. <i>The Ozarks</i> is maybe his most enduring treasure. We need to be reminded how this rascal of a writer held forth on his favorite subject. </p>--Roger Abrahams, author <i>A Singer and Her Songs: Almeda Riddle's Book of Ballads</i></p>

Anything you can do to keep <i>The Ozarks</i> alive and in print is a gift to folklorists and regional writers. Randolph was a proud Ozarker and a fine, zesty writer, a wit, a charmer. <i>The Ozarks</i> is maybe his most enduring treasure. We need to be reminded how this rascal of a writer held forth on his favorite subject. </p> Roger Abrahams, author <i>A Singer and Her Songs: Almeda Riddle s Book of Ballads</i></p>

Anything you can do to keep The Ozarks alive and in print is a gift to folklorists and regional writers. Randolph was a proud Ozarker and a fine, zesty writer, a wit, a charmer. The Ozarks is maybe his most enduring treasure. We need to be reminded how this rascal of a writer held forth on his favorite subject. --Roger Abrahams, author A Singer and Her Songs: Almeda Riddle's Book of Ballads

Anything you can do to keep The Ozarks alive and in print is a gift to folklorists and regional writers. Randolph was a proud Ozarker and a fine, zesty writer, a wit, a charmer. The Ozarks is maybe his most enduring treasure. We need to be reminded how this rascal of a writer held forth on his favorite subject. --Roger Abrahams, author A Singer and Her Songs: Almeda Riddle's Book of Ballads Anything you can do to keep The Ozarks alive and in print is a gift to folklorists and regional writers. Randolph was a proud Ozarker and a fine, zesty writer, a wit, a charmer. The Ozarks is maybe his most enduring treasure. We need to be reminded how this rascal of a writer held forth on his favorite subject. Roger Abrahams, author A Singer and Her Songs: Almeda Riddle s Book of Ballads

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Vance Randolph was the author of many books on Ozark culture, including, in addition to The Ozarks, the bestselling Pissing in the Snow. Robert Cochran is professor of literature at the University of Arkansas and the author of several books, including Vance Randolph: An Ozark Life.

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