Short stories, descriptive writing, biographical bits, all combine to give one a full-flavored picture of the Ozarks and its people. I had not dreamed that so many familiar names in current literature, had roots in the Ozarks, that region that holds intact some of our choicest patterns of Americana. An excellent group of stories, whose authors include George Milburn, Rose Wilder Lane, Thomas Hart Benton, Thames Williamson, Emily Newell Blair, Charles J. Finger, Charlie May Simon, William Cunningham, MacKinlay Kantor and others. Good regional material, of more than local value.