Rude Pursuits and Rugged Peaks: Schoolcraft's Ozark Journal, 1818-1819 (Arkansas Classics) - Softcover

H. Schoolcraft (author)|Milton D. Rafferty (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557284660 ISBN 13: 9781557284662

Publisher: The University of Arkansas Press, 1996

Synopsis

In the winter of 1818, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft set out from Potosi, Missouri, to document lead mines in the interior of the Ozarks. Intending only to make his fortune by publishing an account of the area's mineral resources, he became the first skilled observer to witness and record frontier life in the Ozarks.

The journal kept by Schoolcraft as he traveled ninety days in the rugged terrain of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas was originally published in 1821 and has become an essential record of Ozark territorial society and natural history documenting some of the earliest American settlers in the region, the power and beauty of many lost portions of the White River, the majesty of the open prairies, and the wealth of wildlife once found in the Ozarks.

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Rude Pursuits and Rugged Peaks "Finally the Christopher Columbus of the Ozarks has his masterpiece published in a form anyone can afford and enjoy. Many aspects make this the most important book ever written on the Ozarks". -- Sandy Primm St. Louis Post-Dispatch Full description

Review

"Finally the Christopher Columbus of the Ozarks has his masterpiece published in a form anyone can afford and enjoy. Many aspects make this the most important book ever written on the Ozarks." --Sandy Primm, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Edition details

• Publisher: The University of Arkansas Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557284660
• ISBN 13: 9781557284662
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184