Hear the 1969 novel about the last Osage Indian in an Ozark town in the author's own tangy Missouri voice. Background music by Dan Randant & friends. Slightly abridged from print for easy listening. $25
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One hundred short short stories of people, places, things and incidents in Missouri history in easy to digest short essays. Ross Malone makes history come alive with the little known, the personal, the simply odd, weird and wonderful tidbits from our state. $14.95 paperback.
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You've probably seen calendars featuring a single item from some day in the past. Ross Malone takes that concept, narrows it to a Missouri focus, selects three to 10 items per day from traditional history, sports, headlines, little known occurrences, tragedies, train wrecks and more and compiles them in chronological order over 500 years of Missouri white settlement history. You never know what you'll find here. Buy it, and look up your birthday first! $14.95 paperback.
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Bob Meyer of St. Louis paddled the Mississippi in 1989, in a homebuilt kayak, keeping a journal as he went. Come along as he tells the day to day story of his journey and the people he met along the way. Hardcover. 200 pgs. $18.00 READ A REVIEW!

"This is a how-to book about deer hunting, but in a very broad sense. Helgenberg thinks about deer hunting all the time - while fishing, while teaching his girls to build a fire - all the time. Before and after the hunt, year round. The total experience is part of the hunt, especially the camping, the friendships, coping with weather conditions. This broad outlook on deer hunting is why Howard found space in the magazine I edited." - Bob Todd, former owner and editor, River Hills Traveler. 140 p. Special Traveler price - $20.95 READ A REVIEW!

Bluegill fishing isn't just for kids with a cane pole and a worm. Bluegill can make worthy fly fishing opponents. The Wilson's book shares the secrets of tackle, location, flies, lures and bait and seasonal approaches to successful fishing for this tasty, and scrappy often overlooked fish. 151 p. Color illustrations. $16.95. READ A REVIEW!

Smallmouth bass are one of the hardest fighting fish for their size in the Midwest. This book lets you in on the secrets of catching trophy smallmouth, by explaining habitat, feeding behavior and the best gear and approach to catching them on artificial flies. Flyfishing technique, and many fly patterns included. 191 p. Color illustrations. $19.95. READ A REVIEW!

The story of Lewis and Clark, summarized in schoolbooks, is expanded in this 128 page account for readers age 10-13 using direct quotes from the famous journals. We have about two dozen of these, and when they are gone, they are gone! Great for birthdays or stocking stuffers to get kids turned on to exploring the outdoors. $4.50. Shipping only $1.95.

If you like to fish Lake of the Ozarks, area resident and fishing author John Neporadny reveals secrets to make your fishing more productive. With photos, maps, interviews and Lake of the Ozarks fascinating facts. Special Traveler price $10.00.

Experience the horrors of destruction wrought by freak hailstorms and fatal lightning bolts, the alternating calamities of drought and flood, the hardship of blizzards and ice storms, the trauma of supercell tornadoes. Journalist Don Corrigan traces major Missouri weather events from 1543 to present in energetic prose and detailed photos. Paperback, 188 pages. $18.00. READ A REVIEW!

With images and descriptions of nearly 100 nature sites in the Show-Me State and adjacent areas, the book has a little something for everybody. Hikers and bikers, cavers and climbers, New Agers and environmentalists, local and regional historians, poets and prophets will all find something to take away from the experience of Show-Me . . . Natural Wonders. 232 pages, pencil illustrations. Softcover. $18.00. READ A REVIEW!

The founder of the famous lost Irish Wilderness colony in southeast Missouri beautifully recalls his childhood, schooling and emigration to America. A firsthand account of his mission in the Ozarks and life as a bishop. Re-typeset and carefully edited, with photographs and explanatory text added. Paperback, 250 pages, $24.95.

Here is a fresh inquiry into the fate of pioneer priest John Hogan’s colony of immigrant Irish that mysteriously vanished during the Civil War. Illustrated with color maps and photographs of the still-wild Ozark landscape where the legendary settlement briefly thrived. New insight into the legend and the land in which it played out. Soft cover; 7 x 10 inches, 80 color plates, 128 pages, $18.95.
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Leland Payton’s photographs focus on wild rivers, back roads, villages, country churches, and farmers with sun-etched faces. Quotes from early explorers and geographers support his concept that the Ozarks has always been, and will likely remain, a cultural and ecological refuge from the changes that sweep over it. A reader praised the book as “a crystallization, a naming of all that uniqueness as I find in the Ozarks…a modern classic.” The Resourceful Traveler, Chicago Tribune. Softcover; 8 x 8 inches, 80 pages, $19.95. READ A REVIEW!

What lured Victorian travelers to the Ozarks? Is the appeal of this fabled region the same today as it was in horse and buggy days? Leland and Crystal Payton, authors of 10 published books on popular culture, antiques, and the Ozarks, have searched for the essential image of this great touristic magnet in yesterday’s promotions, postcards, photographs, maps, and souvenirs. Most of the rare ephemera shown here has never before been reproduced in book form. Hardback, 8 x 10 inches, 96 pages, $24.95.
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