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Description of  Yesterday Today: Life in the Ozarks (Chronicles of the Ozarks)

The emergence into pop culture of quaint and simple Ozarks Mountaineersthrough the writings of Vance Randolph, Wayman Hogue, Charles Morrow Wilson, and otherswas a comfort and fascination to many Americans in the early twentieth century. Disillusioned with the modernity they felt had contributed to the Great Depression, middle-class Americans admired the Ozarkers apparently simple way of life, which they saw as an alternative to an increasingly urban and industrial America. Catherine S. Barker's 1941 book Read more