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unusual facts about Ozark


Canadian Martyrs

The martyrs are honored at Camp Ondessonk, a Catholic summer camp in Ozark, Illinois, where each unit of cabins is named after one of the martyrs.


Air Transportation Stabilization Board

The ATSB denied applications from nine carriers: Ozark Airlines dba Great Plains Airlines, MEDjet International, Corporate Airlines, Gemini Air Cargo, Frontier Flying Service, Spirit Airlines, National Airlines, and both initial and revised applications from United Airlines and Vanguard Airlines.

An Ozark Odyssey

An Ozark Odyssey is an autobiographical memoir written by Pulitzer Prize nominee William Childress.

Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative

Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative Corporation is a non-profit rural electric utility cooperative headquartered in Ozark, Arkansas, with district offices in Waldron, Arkansas, and Pocola, Oklahoma.

Cairns Army Airfield

Needing a location to shoot all takeoffs and landings for the 1949 film Twelve O'Clock High, including the spectacular B-17 Flying Fortress belly-landing sequence early in the film, director Henry King selected Ozark since its dark runways more closely matched wartime bases in England as opposed to the light-colored runways at nearby Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, the primary shoot location.

Chuck Purgason

He is the founder and owner of Ozark Awards, Ozark Wings Hatchery and Hunting Preserve, and is a resident of Caulfield, Missouri.

Computer Gaming World

Early bi-monthly issues were typically 40-50 pages in length, written in a newsletter style, including submissions by game designers such as Joel Billings (SSI), Dan Bunten (Ozark Software), and Chris Crawford.

Crescent Dragonwagon

Dragonwagon and her late husband, Ned Shank, owned Dairy Hollow House, a country inn and restaurant in the Ozark Mountain community of Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

Geography of Missouri

The boundary between the Ozark and lowland regions runs southwest from Cape Girardeau on the Mississippi River to the Arkansas border just southwest of Poplar Bluff.

Ha Ha Tonka

Named after Ha Ha Tonka State Park in Camdenton, Missouri, their music is steeped in Ozark folk, bringing the passion, spirituality, hardships, and roots of the people that once lived there, and those that still do, into their sound.

KDYN

KCYT, a radio station (96.7 FM) licensed to serve Ozark, Arkansas, which held the call sign KDYN-FM from 1985 to 2012

Keltner, Missouri

It is located about seventeen miles east of Ozark on Missouri Supplemental Route T. It formerly had a post office, with ZIP code 65678, but mail is now served by the post office in Oldfield.

Marideth Sisco

She was living in the Ozark town of West Plains, Missouri, when she had a chance encounter that would change her status from that of a retired journalist and part-time musician to that of a minor celebrity.

Mel Bay

Melbourne E. Bay was born on February 25, 1913 in the little Ozark Mountain town of Bunker, Missouri.

Merl Lindsay

In 1957, Lindsay joined ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee, taking over the ten-piece Ozark Jubilee Band.

Mitchell F. Jayne

Turning his talents to other venues, Jayne authored a weekly column in the Shannon County Wave, in his adopted Ozark hometown of Eminence, Missouri.

Pine Ridge, Oklahoma

There is also a winery east of Pine Ridge on the Ozark Trail (Woods and Waters Winery and Vineyard).

The Brave Engineer

The Brave Engineer depicts the wreck near Vaughan, Mississippi as a head-on collision with Casey's train steaming one way and another train steaming the other way, in an Ozark-like mountain range.

U.S. Route 54 in Texas

The southwestern portion was originally part of the Ozark Trails, paralleling the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad, and was originally given the numbering of State Highway 33.


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