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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Ozarks"”.
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The Waldensians of Barry County: Finding Freedom in the Ozarks
… an overlooked ethno-historic group within the Ozarks. The experience of the Waldensians in Barry County is reconstructed through church archives, newspapers, and local histories. This history of the Waldensian settlement in southwest Missouri preserves a rare, bloodstained relic; explores the …
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Understory vegetation patterns in oak savannas of the Missouri Ozarks
… in 200 plots on 13 oak savanna sites in the Ozarks. Ordination by detrended correspondence analysis showed sites grouping by rhyolite, cherty dolomite, and limestone/dolomite substrate types. DCA axes correlated with landscape variables and fire frequency, but correlations were generally …
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Dynamics of Rural School Consolidation in the Arkansas Ozarks, 1900-1950
… aspect of rural American history—in the Arkansas Ozarks, primarily in the first half of the twentieth century. In a broader sense, it serves as a case study for the history of rural reform and local responses in a region and state that have been labeled through myth and stereotype as one of the …
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Time-Resolved Monitoring of Water Quality in Ozarks Springs During Storm Events
The availability of water resources is one of the most important factors in the settlement of an area, and indigenous communities worldwide exhibit commonality by concentrating their settlement close to fresh water sources. Springs resulting from karst geology are often used as water sources. …
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Horse-Stealing and Man-Hanging: An Examination of Vigilantism in the Missouri Ozarks
… organizations that formed in the Missouri Ozarks during the nineteenth century. Primary source documents indicate that vigilante organizations formed in Missouri, and throughout the United States, for a variety of reasons. This study disproves the theory that vigilante violence in the …
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Wayfaring Strangers: A Case Study of Rural Developmental Writers in the Missouri Ozarks
… study of rural basic writers in the Missouri Ozarks. Using Richard Hofstadter's concept of "anti-intellectualism" as a theoretical lens, I explored the attitudes of students towards writing and academic culture. This exploration was conducted by means of questionnaires, interviews, writing …
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"Far in Distant Lands to Dwell": The Sacred Harp Presence in the Arkansas Ozarks
<p>In 1999, the Shiloh Museum of Ozarks History in Springdale, Arkansas, hosted a singing school to teach the public the rudiments of the 1844 religious songbook The Sacred Harp. While enjoying a long history among Deep South singers, The Sacred Harp has few regional ties to the Ozarks. The goal of …
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Effects of Trout Introduction on Community Assemblage and Behavior of Native Fish in the Missouri Ozarks
Salmonids have been introduced to Ozark streams since 1878 with few studies to date investigating the effects of trout introduction on native fish. Fish communities were sampled in the fall of 2013 to assess potential impacts of trout introduction on community assemblage and behavior of native …
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Investigating Ozarks Marginality: A Study of Late Prehistoric Ceramics from the Northern Ozark Highland of Missouri
Archaeologists offer a range of hypotheses about human habitation in the Missouri Ozark Highland during late prehistory (A.D. 900-1500). Ahler, Kreisa, and Edging (2010) apply the Margin model, a version of the core-periphery-margin model. Application of the margin model to the region is …
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An evaluation of pre- and post-timber harvest water quality in low-order streams in the Missouri Ozarks
… in Shannon and Reynolds counties in Missouri Ozarks, ranging from 5-50 acres were instrumented with in-stream and hill-slope water samplers. Samples were collected for approximately three years prior to harvest and two to three years after harvest. The comparison of pre-and post-harvest …
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Palliative Care Education to Increase Outpatient Provider Knowledge and Palliative Care Referral Intent Within Veterans Healthcare System of the Ozarks
… care. Setting: Veterans Healthcare System of the Ozarks, Fayetteville, Arkansas. Participants: 14 outpatient providers within VHSO; 8 MDs, 4 NPs, and 2 PAs. Methods: Descriptive research study consisting of an education session, discussion, and completion of a demographics form and evaluation …
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Response of Breeding Birds to Forest Disturbance in the Arkansas Ozarks: Impacts of Uneven-Aged Management, Ice Damage, and Woodland Restoration
<p>Forests of the Ozarks are important breeding grounds for many bird species, each with specific habitat requirements. Natural and anthropogenic disturbance events can alter vegetational structure of forests, thereby influencing communities of breeding birds. The objectives of my study were to …
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Place(ment)
… about the folklore, landscape, and people of the Ozarks. Though she continues to create work with the Ozarks in mind, it became a motif used for a broader conversation about the ad hoc, holiness, painting, landscape, the figure, and intimacy.</p> <p>In many ways, the concepts within her work are …
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Examining the role of management, forest structure, and prey abundance in driving Eastern Whip-poor-will habitat use in Southern Illinois and the Missouri Ozarks
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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Girls at the Gun Show
… poems which center on place, particularly the Ozarks, and on motherhood and gender. In the tradition of contemporary poets such as Jim Daniels, Jane Springer, and Natasha Trethewey, many of the poems in this collection use place as a basis of the work. The Ozarks, specifically, figures heavily …
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Resistivity Survey to Identify Archaeological Features at the Nathan Boone Homestead State Historic Site
… two miles north of Ash Grove in the Ozarks region of southwest Missouri, and was the home of Nathan Boone (youngest son of Daniel Boone), his family, their slaves, and their decedents from the 1830s to about 1900. The Boone house, which still stands, is the focus of NBHSHS …
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Genetic And Morphological Assessment Of Pigtoe Mussels (unionidae: Pleurobemini: Fusconaia/pleurobema Spp.) in Ozark Drainages
… harbor cryptic diversity within drainages of the Ozarks. Further, Pleurobema rubrum and P. sintoxia have been shown to be possible conspecifics despite have differing shell morphologies. This study sought to use the COI mitochondrial gene to investigate the taxonomic identity of Pleurobemini …
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