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Tales of the Ozarks: True Stories. Topeka, KS: Preston O. Hale (Undated, but early printing). Stapled softcover, 32 pages. Previous owner's name on front cover; gift inscription from 1966 inside front cover. Text clean and unmarked. Stapled binding intact. Age discoloration to edges of front and back covers.Author's Preface (1963): This is a group of events that impressed a growing boy who moved to an Ozark farm at the age of four years in the year of 1893. He came there from the flat muddy swamplands of northern Illinois. His memory of the northland was largely of Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Christmastime and a tin horn that made a loud noise. Most of all, he remembered the periodic trips of Grandma who came each Christmas and later moved south to live with them. He always remembered not only the endless mud in the North, but his sore, bruised bare feet that trod the Ozark hills. His adventures were priceless, his work was backbreaking, but his spirit and joy of living were the foundation of a bountiful… Read More

Topeka, KS: Preston Orin Hale. Near Fine. N.D.. Softcover. Signed in name only by the author on the inside of the front cover. Very light edge wear and scattered soiling. ; 32 pages; Signed by Author .