Ozark history and legends overview.

Ozark's history and legends overview:

Growing up in the north-woods of Wisconsin was fascinating. However, that is another story. Equally, if not more fascinating, are the experiences I have had and the things I have learned about over the last 20+ years of living in and around the Ozark's region of Missouri and Arkansas.

Follow me on this Blog to discover the beauty and wonder of the Ozark's. From its history and legends, to its secrets and lore. I will take you on a photographic journey of the Ozark's and post descriptions and/or directions of places you must visit while traveling through and exploring for yourself this ancient, yet, underrated area that has greatly impacted the traditions of the entire nation.

• The geological formation of the Ozark's area which created numerous caves, and why Laura Ingalls Wilder stated: "There really not hills, just valleys."

• Civil War history of the Ozark's including how the region sparked the war itself, historic battlefields and cemeteries, the post war unrest and tumultuous events that led to the likes of Alf Bolin's "Murder Rocks", and the vigilante group know as the "Baldknobbers"

• Travels and hideouts of Jessie and Frank James in and around the Ozark's.

• Towns long gone and submerged under lakes built by the Army Corps of Engineers.

• The lead mining of the Joplin area and the effects of the "Chat Piles" of mining waste that were left behind for the wind to blow lead dust into the yards that children play in. and also how gangsters used these abandoned mines to "Dispose of incriminating evidence" (Dead Bodies)

• Pre FBI police chases in the Four-States area of Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma that proved unfruitful as gangsters and outlaws could travel from state to state in a matter of minutes, leaving the police behind as they were not allowed to continue pursuit outside of their jurisdictions.

• And lets not forget the Hillbillies of the Ozark's!

I really could go on and on but I will hold back on any more spoilers and let you make your discoveries as I did. One by one and yet all tied together to create the History and Legends of the Ozark's.