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unusual facts about Ozarks



Asplenium × gravesii

It is only found where its parent species are both present; in practice, this proves to be a few scattered sites in the Appalachian Mountains, Shawnee Hills, and Ozarks, reaching perhaps its greatest local abundance around Natural Bridge State Resort Park.

Christ of the Ozarks

The Christ of the Ozarks is featured briefly in the 2005 movie Elizabethtown and in the 1988 movie Pass the Ammo.

Cotter, Arkansas

In 1819, Henry Schoolcraft was exploring the Ozarks and spent a night in the Cotter area.

Crosses

Crosses, Arkansas, a small community located in the Ozarks of north west Arkansas

Foxfire

In the romance novel Foxfire Light by Janet Dailey, a horse and its rider are spooked by the light while riding through the woods in the Ozarks.

James Mason Owen

Jim Owen also authored a book entitled: "Jim Owen's Hillbilly Humor" being the subject of articles in Look, Life, and The Saturday Evening Post where Jim shared his hilarious and heartwarming stories of life in the Ozarks.

Lake of the Ozarks

This Arnold Palmer layout is a big-time test(7,150 yards from tips) nestled between Lake of the Ozarks and imposing bluffs of Osage River.

Laquey, Missouri

Route 7 runs north from Interstate 44 exit 150 about three miles west of Buckhorn to Richland, then north out of the county toward the Lake of the Ozarks region.

Lara Polangco

She also played the 2002 Peace Conspiracy in the Ozarks of Missouri, and performed with Larkin Grimm at Terrastock 6, RI.

Larry Don

According to legend, it was built from a World War II landing craft that was quartered in St. Louis and trucked to the Lake of the Ozarks.

Mary Gibson Henry

Mrs. Henry had a lifelong interest in botany, and after her children had grown up, she set out collecting in her chauffered car to remote areas of the American coastal plain, piedmont, and Appalachian Mountains, and in later ventures to the Ozarks and then the Rocky Mountains from New Mexico to British Columbia.

Out of the Ozarks

Out of the Ozarks is the title of a 1988 book by Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist William Childress, about his life and experiences in the rural American midwest region known as the Ozarks.

Ozarks Electric Cooperative

Ozarks Electric Cooperative Corporation is a non-profit rural electric utility cooperative headquartered in Fayetteville, Arkansas, with district offices in Springdale, Arkansas, Stilwell, Oklahoma, and Westville, Oklahoma.

Squadron of Justice

Three young men from different areas of the country (Texas, the Ozarks and Brooklyn) all named Billy Batson were reading Captain Marvel’s comic book adventures and happened to wonder if saying “Shazam” would work for them as well.

William Aden French

His novels include: Driftwood of the Current (1942), the story of the disastrous Winona flood of 1895; Oakley of the Ozarks (1942), a tale of young love among the hills and valleys; Wrestling the Wilderness (1943) a drama set in the north woods of Maine; and Strength of the Hills (1944), a drama set around the development of a copper mine in Shannon County.


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