Author of "Urban Legends of Lincoln County Missouri" Norman McFadden delivers 21 tales of mischief and mayhem in southern Missouri. In this collection, comprised of the chapters that launched his storytelling, we read of everything from moonshiners and murderers, to sibling rivalry and bigfoot! So buckle up and brace yourself, we're headed to the backwoods!

Like we done said before, what happens in the backwoods....don't always stay in them there backwoods.Grandpa didn't believe in ghosts. At least not until he met one walking the railroad tracks one night. Little Mac didn't think anything in the world could ruin his birthday party. Boy, was he wrong! Did Doc and Tuffy survive their last daring adventure? Is Grandma Brown's ghost still hanging around? Light up a fire. Turn down the lamps and find out, in The Legends of Leeper Holler II!

Celebrated Author and story teller Norman McFadden releases 28 new tales in "Urban Legends of Lincoln County Missouri." Do werewolves truly roam the Sugar Creek valley? Who summoned up the Hobgoblin in Old Monroe? Where did "Frenchman's Bluff" get it's name? Tales of mischief, murder and mystery are the make up of the area's antiquity. In "Urban Legends of Lincoln County Missouri", Author Norman McFadden reveals that tales can be treacherous, and history can be haunting.

This collection of work is an analysis and investigation into Maxine Greene, the most important philosopher of education in the United States today. The book opens and concludes with Greene's own autobiographical statements.

Winner of the Missouri History Book Award, from the State Historical Society of Missouri Winner of the Arkansiana Award, from the Arkansas Library Association Geologic forces raised the Ozarks. Myth enshrouds these hills. Human beings shaped them and were shaped by them. The Ozarks reflect the epic tableau of the American people—the native Osage and would-be colonial conquerors, the determined settlers and on-the-make speculators, the endless labors of hardscrabble farmers and capitalism of visionary entrepreneurs. The Old Ozarks is the first volume of a monumental three-part history of the region and its inhabitants. Brooks Blevins begins in deep prehistory, charting how these highlands of granite, dolomite, and limestone came to exist. From there he turns to the political and economic motivations behind the eagerness of many peoples to possess the Ozarks. Blevins places these early proto-Ozarkers within the context of larger American history and the economic, social, and political forces that drove it forward. But he also tells the varied and colorful human stories that fill the region's storied past—and contribute to the powerful myths and misunderstandings that even today distort our views of the Ozarks' places and people. A sweeping history in the grand tradition, A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1: The Old Ozarks is essential reading for anyone who cares about the highland heart of America.