Down in the Hollar: A Gallery of Ozark Folk Speech

by Vance Randolph and George P. Randolph, Vance Wilson

Book Overview

"A fitting climax to many years of fruitful labor by a man who probably knows more about the Ozarkians than anybody else. . . . [Randolph] has perceived and admirably expressed the close connection between a people and the language they speak." American Speech Until World War II the backwoodsmen living in the Ozark Mountains of southern Missouri, northern Arkansas, and eastern Oklahoma were the most deliberately "unprogressive" people in the United...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806115351
• ISBN13: 9780806115351
• Release Date: April 1953
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"