A Living History of the Ozarks
"...The book also provides a generous suggested reading list and is nicely indexed, so that if you want to visit Grand Gulf or Elephant Rocks, you can easily learn what is there and how to get there."  --The Springfield News-Leader, September 20, 1992"Ozarks book should be read in advance and in entirety: Phyllis Rossiter's A Living History of the Ozarks is a history book first, a travel book a distant second... it is filled mostly with a detailed accounting of the development of the Ozarks region."  --The Kansas City Star, August 30, 1992"Phyllis Rossiter's book... is more in-depth than most guides. There are masses of history, cultural information, explanations of names and of colloquial terms, accompanied by black-and-white photographs... the focus definitely is on providing detailed stories and background information to help travelers appreciate the area to its fullest." --The New Orleans Times Picayune, October 23, 1994"Rossiter takes the reader through the six areas into which she has divided the Ozarks. She provides a thorough examination of each area's history and sights and includes... photos, maps and charts, and lists... complete the book's many useful features."  --Missouri Libraries, March/April, 1993"The first pleasure came in discovering the introductory section, called 'Guideposts to Living History,' which provides a splendid overview, not only to the remainder of this book but to the region as a whole. Although this book will be a resource for the increasing number of travellers interested in learning more about the history and heritage of the area they are visiting, Ozarks residents, as well, will gain new insights and understandings about the place they live... The book demands maps and pictures and they are supplied, lots of them, illustrating and explaining the places described in the text... are a treat to browse through."  --Dr. Robert Gilmore, OzarksWatch, Summer-Fall, 1992"What she manages to do is to offer a rich story of the way of life in the Ozarks, a story of human condition that has long fascinated people, those who know the region and those whose only knowledge of it stems too often from inappropriate and false images... When Ms. Rossiter writes that 'In the Ozarks, things have a way of skewing into the fourth dimension and time seems somehow out of synch,' she has nailed down the real meaning of the fabulous region."  --Log Cabin Weekender, Conway, Arkansas, July 25, 1993