The Ozarks: An American Survival of Primitive Society - Chronicles of the Ozarks

Vance Randolph was perfectly constituted for his role as the chronicler of Ozark folkways. As a self-described ""hack writer,"" he was as much a figure of the margins as his chosen subjects. In The Ozarks, originally published in 1931, we have Randolph's first book-length portrait of the people he would spend the next half-century studying.