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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> It is hard to imagine today that the beautiful rolling hills of the southern Missouri and north Arkansas Ozarks were once one of the bloodiest regions in our nation’s great Civil War. Geologists tell us that these sprawling highlands of mid- America known as the Ozarks are our nation’s oldest moun- tain range. Once the homeland of the warring Osage and other Indian tribes early French explorers took note of the beautiful and unusually strong wood [bois d’arc “bow wood?] the Indians were using to make their weapons which flour- ished in abundance throughout the region. The French then began referring to the land as ?la r?gion aux arcs? meaning “the area of the bows.” Simple phonetics over the there- fore created the word Ozark from this corruption of ?aux arcs.? Today this tree (pronounced locally “bow dark? or “bow doc”) which still flourishes throughout the region is often referred to as a hedgeapple tree as a result of its ten- dency to grow along fence rows and form a hedge. This tree produces large yellow apples in the fall which are useless and poisonous. One of the many Ozark legends created by early settlers in the region tells that this tree once produced an abundance of the most delicious fruit ever known to man- kind. When Adam was enticed by Eve to eat the forbidden fruit God turned the fruit to poison and caused thorns to grow from this once beautiful tree.