Rude Pursuits and Rugged Peaks: Schoolcraft's Ozark Journal, 1818-1819

by M. Rafferty Schoolcraft and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Book Overview

In the winter of 1818, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft set out from Potosi, Missouri, to document lead mines in the interior of the Ozarks. Intending only to make his fortune by publishing an account of the area's mineral resources, he became the first skilled observer to witness and record frontier life in the Ozarks.

The journal kept by Schoolcraft as he traveled ninety days in the rugged terrain of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas was originally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557284660
• ISBN13: 9781557284662
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"