Edit: Thanks for over a million views everyone! Be sure to see the other Project Homecoming 2 videos here: kzitem.info/door/PLjnwpaclU4wV5RHTFL8xWYALVIf2hFoUu
@Bruce_Games
Жыл бұрын
Can you do the Cajuns next it’s very similar to this with maybe a bit more of the stereotypes being true
@marth6270
Жыл бұрын
'Aux Arcs' is pronounced 'Oz ark'
@turtley4444
Жыл бұрын
Your from missouri?
@JessicaL085
Жыл бұрын
I loved this video!! My family comes from the Ozarks, my mom and dad's side both; and both sides have stories of Bigfoot. Oddly enough, they sound very similar even though the location of the stories are several hundred miles apart. My daddy has his own encounter story. He hasn't told very many people at all, probably because my dad even struggles with the story. He's a man "cursed with a literal mind." If I can't see it, it doesn't exist type of person, so to hear my dad tell the story, is bone chilling. Knowing that he is such a factual man
@Game_Hero
Жыл бұрын
doesn't seem like many people did.
@electropneumatic
11 ай бұрын
As a Missourian I've often felt that our state is an absolute hidden gem for it's beauty and nature. I think it's one of the reasons the state's population may not agree on a lot of things but we can all agree on conservation and wildlife preservation. My whole family settled in the Ozarks by way of Tennessee and Arkansas and eventually landed in Saint Louis, Springfield, and Columbia with people scattered across the Saint Francois Mountain region. A truly beautiful area with bluffs, hills, dense forest, and of course, streams, creeks, and rivers. Thanks for the history lesson.
@johnmackshighlights8103
11 ай бұрын
On me. Most underrated state
@coachbrandon01
5 ай бұрын
Missouri is or was the state with The best conservation laws, in USA. This comes after we were messing things up, pretty badly. Mostly tourists.
@Yee-Haw-MMA
4 ай бұрын
I agree. Moved away to Texas for 3 years and came back because I couldn’t live without my MO. A lot of people here don’t like it, I was the same way. Didn’t realize how much I loved Missouri until I wasn’t here anymore
@173jaSon371
4 ай бұрын
I'm a born and raised New Englander. I have been visiting Missouri and extreme Southern Illinois since I was 6 months old though. I now live out in Missouri for the last half decade and began wildlife photography a couple years ago after already having hiked a ton of the local trails out here, I needed something fresh and new. The amount of wildlife I see in this region, especially now that I've learned a TON, is absolutely staggering. Things I used to think were nearly impossible to just get a clear view of, I now have awesome photos of up close in the flesh. I've had over 100 Barred Owl sightings, I've seen probably almost 2 dozen snake species, beaver, mink, otter, muskrat, bobcat, hawks mating, and so many other things. One day I literally climbed a tree with a stuck Bald Eagle in it hanging upside down from it's stuck leg, I scared it enough that it used its last burst of energy to free its leg! I had called some local conservation depts but it was sunday morning in Dec in a remote area, so I took it into my own hands. I believe the pair(there were 2 in the tree) were mating and 1 fell forward. The road I found them on, I've maybe driven down 5-10 times in 2 years looking for wildlife and just so happened to travel that way that morning. Nature is crazy, and there is soo much of it here in MO and southern IL. (If you want to see my photos, you can find me at Jason Lapre on Flickr)
@toomsenvaughn
4 ай бұрын
I was born in Columbia, and live in boonville. Missouri is definitely a gem. There are so many great parks and rivers here
@realmless4193
Жыл бұрын
As a fellow Ozarkan I am glad you are spreading info about the history of our region.
@actually_a_circle
Жыл бұрын
That's cool, I didn't know he was from the Ozarks. I'm from west Arkansas too
@stonewallsquad3343
Жыл бұрын
The great state of Ozarkansas will be made manifest
@druidgrif
Жыл бұрын
Another one checking in...
@unseeliesperg6130
Жыл бұрын
Here to rep the ZigZag Mountains in that 501! Spa City for Life!
@martinphilip8998
Жыл бұрын
More than 60 years ago I spent a week in Butterfield, MO. I still have fond memories of that experience. I was a guest of a family on a trip to visit grandpa’s farm. To me it was a huge motor journey. Gene, the dad, flew me home in a rented plane. Dang. I guess as a 7 year I figured anybody could just fly a plane. 😂
@danbgt
Жыл бұрын
The wife and I are motorcycle tourers. We live in Texas. Back in 2006 we rode up to Eureka Springs, Arkansas to participate in a small get together and fell in love with the Ozarks. Over the past 20 years we have ridden in all 49 states that have roads to them and nearly all of Canada. We have seen some amazing, beautiful and awesome places. But the only place we keep going back to is The Ozarks. We have ridden all over The Ozarks and now consider the area our second home. It’s a beautiful area and the people there are mostly good folks. We’ll keep going back.
@MartianAmbassador69
Жыл бұрын
Mostly?
@justinwatts8623
11 ай бұрын
Have you been to Oark? I recommend it.
@danbgt
11 ай бұрын
@@justinwatts8623 Yes. Been there a couple of times. Great place!
@radfarlander
11 ай бұрын
@@MartianAmbassador69 Well, you've got to skip Harrison, AR. Look it up.
@danbgt
11 ай бұрын
@@radfarlander Have good friends that live in Harrison.
@omicronoverlord3533
11 ай бұрын
As a Missourian from the southeast edge, I think you did the Ozarks a bit of justice here. I went to college in poplar bluff which I've often said is the edge of the world because it's basically the southern gateway to the Ozarks and I have many fond memories of driving through the heavily wooded Ozark hills late into the night. Truly it is a place of comfort so thank you again.
@carriekent5009
11 ай бұрын
Actually the French pronunciation of Aux Arcs would sound nearly identical to how we pronounce Ozark. Because Arcs begins with a vowel, there would be a phonetic contraction between the x and A, making a Z sound. Great video!
@codybailey855
Жыл бұрын
I've traveled and lived all over Europe, the Middle East, and oart of Asia. There's beauty throughout this world of ours, but there's only one place Ill call home. The Ozarks and foothills of Arkansas! It has a beauty and charm all it's own.
@mylegsrrricthy1689
4 ай бұрын
As an American I can confirm South East Kansas doesn't exist
@SnowmanTF2
11 ай бұрын
As someone from central Oklahoma I tended to think of it as a vacation destination, having gone on multiple family vacations around the area. Granted we have/had a similar issue with people somehow thinking Oklahoma got stuck in time, but more specific to the wild western era for us. I am not sure how much of this might be related to the musical Oklahoma! and western TV/Film (which popularity was tailing off around the time I was born). In multiple states I was in on vacation got asked, by people who seemed entirely serious, if we still road horses for primary transportation.
@moncorp1
Жыл бұрын
Back in the 80s when I was still a youngster, I traveled from Ft. Smith to Fayetteville. It was still a two lane road. Now that route is a 4 lane divided highway if I'm not mistaken. I remember looking up and seeing an all wood house with a porch that ran across the entire front of it on the side of a hill. It had a couple of men barefoot in overalls sitting in rocking chairs with a dog lying at their feet. I remember wondering if that was for tourists. It was not
@mailleweaver
11 ай бұрын
That old two-lane road is still there. It's now called Scenic Hwy 71. It was bypassed with Interstate 540 in the late 90s and early 2000s. I540 has since been renamed I49 and extended beyond a simple link between Fort Smith and Fayetteville. It now extends all the way to Kansas City and replaced/overlaps Hwy 71 in Missouri. I think the only part of I540 that retains that name is the stretch that's in the Fort Smith/Van Buren city limits.
@laydawesome
11 ай бұрын
I grew up in Ozark and I enjoyed this video very much. I have many fun stories about the area, including a cave being discovered in our backyard and National Geographic coming out. I’ve not seen our area get any recognition beyond Bass Pro Shops, and not many people even know that BP started in Springfield.
@joybrown8644
11 ай бұрын
I had no idea! When I was a teenager, I traveled with my best friend to stay with her grandmother for two weeks in two separate summers in Dardanelle, Arkansas. Her grandmother took us around the Ozarks and into a place in Oklahoma with a fort. I have always remembered the beauty of the Ozarks, but really didn’t understand the history. It’s kind of a story of if you can’t beat them join them and maximize on that. Oh, her grandmother also took me to the very first Walmart I ever went to. I think that might’ve been the first Walmart in existence?
@travislivengood2744
11 ай бұрын
As an Eastern Kansan with central Missouri roots. I absolutely love the Ozarks. And every time I venture there it feels like going home. Beautiful, inviting. I love the 'Zarks.
@SEKreiver
11 ай бұрын
Cool clip! My Scots-Irish great-great-great grandfather settled in the MO Ozarks. His son was a cavalry officer on the Union side at Wilson's Creek. Then HIS son settled in Labette County, Kansas. The grandson of that man married my mother, who was from the western edge of Labette County. That's where I live. It's called 'The Little Ozarks', a region of about 100sq. miles. Cross west into Montgomery County and things begin to flatten out very quickly. An Osage village was excavated about a mile from where I live.
@1985lsf
11 ай бұрын
As backwards as my city is, Springfield has been a great hometown and exciting place to see history unfold and get retold. This video really sums up my family's existence since the mid 1800s.
@ACeramicVase-jx3cs
11 ай бұрын
I had no idea that you were a fellow Ozarker! I am glad you're spreading the history of our area, and showing how beautiful our region is.
@courtneyraymer6586
11 ай бұрын
As a Texan, whose late husband had roots in southeast Missouri, I was interested in your reference to Moses Austin; wondering if he was the grandfather of Stephan F. Austin. He’s considered the “father of Texas. Stephen Austin’s father,also named Stephen, lived in Potosi and was a banker. He talked some of the local residents into taking San Jacinto up on his offer to come to what was then called “Tejas” to settle land and become citizens of Mexico. They had recently won independence from Spain and wanted to see the land developed. The senior Austin fell ill and died before he could fully implement his plan. His son, Stephen assumed the responsibility and brought the first settlers to Texas. Huge problems ensued when the settlers, first didn’t realize that they were expected to become citizens of Mexico and that much of the land that had been promised was owned by people who still considered themselves to be Spanish citizens whose land had been given to them by the king of Spain in the form of land grants, some dating back to the 16th century. Even today, there are still cases pending Texas’ courts of people who still have the original land grants trying to get restitution. I’ve always thought it interesting that today’s Texas, going back to it as “The Republic of Texas”, has its historical roots in the Ozarks. When I told my husband about this many years ago, he was amazed that the small town of Potosi played such an important role in the history of our country.
@ThomasAnderson-o5c
3 ай бұрын
would like to expose a couple of rumors. First, we do not have one leg shorter than the other so we can run the ridges. Second, engine blocks hanging in the FRONT yard are considered wind chimes.
@glennso47
Жыл бұрын
I’m from Rockford Illinois and when I first met the woman who was to become my wife, she had such a southern accent that I almost needed a translator to understand her. She was from the Ozarks area.
@mailleweaver
11 ай бұрын
We do have a heavy accent. I can't hear mine when I'm talking, but in a recording it's undeniable.
@nizhoni3339
11 ай бұрын
I'm from Arkansas! I love these mountains and they have just as much lore and stuff as the Appalachians I think.
@poetcomic1
11 ай бұрын
The vast number of Ozark young men who went off to fight in WWII and returned as veterans of fighting alongside all other Americans and got to know another world beyond the hills and hollows.... returned and changed the land forever.
@aletcetera9883
11 ай бұрын
Fun fact: when Osage Beach was founded, its name was Zebra. A tiff mining town, named after the striped pattern on the raw tiff. They rebranded to Osage Beach in the 20th century after the lake was created.
@WishfoolWitch
Жыл бұрын
I live right on the northern cusp of the geological Ozark region (by the MO River). Being so close yet not actually in it has always given the region a unique allure to me. The geological history of the Ozarks is pretty insane. The mountains there that seem more like hills are that way because they are ancient. Older than the Appalachian mountains ancient.
@ozarkrefugee
11 ай бұрын
They are not really mountains, they are gullies. Before the gullies were formed, south MO was a vast plateau. Some of it in prairie grass.
@Remorsefullyhumble
Жыл бұрын
I lived on Taum Sauk mountain growing up .such a beautiful place in the winter and really just all year round .I used to run though the woods and streams on the regular .
@matthewhearn9497
11 ай бұрын
I go camping on Taum Sauk multiple times a year. It is beautiful. My goal in life is to eventually get a small house with a small plot of land somewhere on that mountain. I love it there.
@Remorsefullyhumble
11 ай бұрын
@@matthewhearn9497 my grandparents lived on the corner of the highway that runs up to the ranger station and state park .grew up off and on from 96 to 2008 .I don’t think I’d live there only because of the people somewhat and the opportunities.but to own a house up there would be such a comforting feeling .sadly the memories I hold.I know it will never feel the same for me .those woods have old civil war bunkers in them too.
@matthewhearn9497
11 ай бұрын
@@Remorsefullyhumble Thats so cool man. I grew up on the south side of Stl. Was lucky enough to be in the scouts plus had a family that went camping at least once a year. I'm thankful I grew in the city, but to be completely honest....I can't stand people. Give me a place in the hills, by a river or even a well, away from everyone and I'll pass a happy man. I usually hike up or just flat out camp near Pilot Knob/Ironton and idk if they still do, but Ironton usually has a sign up for every saturday talkin about a local concert and I've always wanted to go. Bet you it's some of the best fiddle playing in the country.
@garnerjoyce606
2 ай бұрын
Vaccine medicine...
@garnerjoyce606
2 ай бұрын
Sauk
@digitalartemis333
11 ай бұрын
I live in Illinois, super close to St. Louis. The Ozarks are the go to vacation around here, we love it!
@larryloveless2967
4 ай бұрын
Very informative. Over the years the Silver Dollar City amusement park in Branson has really become a very good amusement park yet has still maintained its Ozarks theme. When young I enjoyed going on canoe float trips on its rivers. People wanting to be out on the water like the Ozarks lakes near Branson and especially the large Lake of the Ozarks region in its north. Housing in the Lake of the Ozarks region has really become affluent over the years and not what I remembered growing up.
@maxwasson2000
Жыл бұрын
2:25 "Ozark" is a suburb of a Springfield, MO by the way 8:41 I was at that state park/museum about 2 years ago I didn't know you were from the Ozarks, I have family from my Mom's side that live there in both southwest Missouri and northwest Arkansas.
@calebroberts1961
11 ай бұрын
The hillbillies are from ozark, AR. The mascot for the ozark you mentioned is just the tigers.
@maxwasson2000
11 ай бұрын
Oh my bad@@calebroberts1961
@wtk6069
11 ай бұрын
Ozark culture was formed by Appalachian people who moved further west because the 18th-century Appalachian frontier got too crowded for them. Lots of people from Eastern Tennessee and Kentucky ended up here. Some later went on to Texas. The Scots-Irish drove expansion west in the US, and hillbilly culture comes from them
@GeoffPlays
Жыл бұрын
I've lived here my whole life and I learned a fair bit from this. Thanks a lot for the interesting and informative video. I have a strange amount of pride in my state and a lot of it is tied to the Ozarks and how beautiful and underrated it is.
@TheBandit7613
Жыл бұрын
I'm from Vegas and I love the Ozarks. I vacation there almost every year. Nice people too. My boat broke down the first day of my trip. The local boat shop squeezed me in to save my vacation.
@GeoffPlays
Жыл бұрын
@@TheBandit7613 That's awesome! We like to pass it on, for sure! If I ever see folks with tipped canoes or stuck tubes I make it a point to help them out! You meet a lot of interesting people on the river, and when you help folks out they always pass it along and the mood goes way up for everyone else on the river too. We're all there to have a good time!
@shinyagumon7015
Жыл бұрын
I didn't know this existed. Cool
@tonyanderson-ln9gl
4 ай бұрын
Something to keep in mind when enduring Hollyweird's caricatures of my beloved Ozarks. This garbage is written by people who have never lived here, probably have never passed through below 30,000 feet, and wouldn't live here on a beat. That being said, they are doing us a good turn by motivating many people to stay far away.
@sandrost4243
11 ай бұрын
Lifelong resident of the Ozarks, it's been pretty cool seeing so many other Missourians in the comments section with so many positive things to say. It's truly a great place to live.
@redfoxfilms2639
Жыл бұрын
I always love your videos on the Ozark, as I am from them myself. I even looked into the history of my small town and found some interesting stories. Like how the town had only 2 hangings. One of these hangings that happened around the late 1800s, (the dude was a murderer) members of the town hung him in the town square on a bell post. So I thought of the only bell in the town I know, one outside our elementary school. So I do little more digging and sure enough, they hung a guy on a bell, then donated it to the elementary school.
@michaelellis4935
11 ай бұрын
Born and raised in Reynolds’s county Mo. we didn’t know we were poor growing up, just had a great childhood and still visit every year to the farm my Grandmother was born on in 1900. Had kinfolk on both sides in the northern war of aggression too
@Julietmindset
Жыл бұрын
Oh shit, i didn't know we were practically neighbors lol
@fredrickfraser1659
Жыл бұрын
I don’t know if it’s just me, but I’ve always associated Hillbillies, and by extension moonshine, banjos, and long bloody feuds, with Appalachia but especially West Virginia. I’ve never really associated that kinda stuff with the Osarks
@coldwar45
Жыл бұрын
The Ozark are a non contiguous part of Appalachia essentially
@ozarkrefugee
Жыл бұрын
My mothers and fathers side were all hill-billys in the western half of the Ozarks'. My great grandparents and their generation, I had a hard time understanding them, my grandparents had to translate often when I was a kid. They had their own dialect that no one speaks anymore, it kind of died when the WW 1 generation died. The WW 2 generation did not chose to keep speaking the way their parents and previous generations did, I am guessing them being a little more educated and the world becoming more modern had something to do with it .
@stevenwesley62
11 ай бұрын
I know of a least 7 generation's of my family being from the Ozark mountains, and we are still hillbillies and proud of it.
@Sounds.of.the.Ozarks
11 ай бұрын
Born and raised Ozarks Hillbilly here. Very accurate and good presentation of the local history. Only one little thing is a bit off... There is no identity crisis here. Maybe to an outsider, but this is one of the few spots Ive ever been that you are whatever you decide you are. You want to be a backwoods hillbilly.. go right ahead and you'll be right at home. You want to be a city slicker.. go right ahead. We got a spot for you too!
@pascaloutdoors
11 ай бұрын
Ozark region has some of the most underrated nature.
@jordane19969
3 ай бұрын
Used to go to Branson every year when my grandparents lived in St. Louis. Great place and really cool geography. How it hasn’t changed too much since I was last there 15 years ago
@maxi-me
5 ай бұрын
Great presentation! Interestingly (as you mentioned) Nashville was not an organic unspring of the music industry. Early labels, particularly RCA had chosen Bristol, TN as the proposed location for bluegrass, even setting up facilities there. At some point it was obviously realized the convenience of finding an urban headquarters halfway between the Appalachians and Ozarks. This also gave access to delta blues, dixieland and western folk & swing. These distinct genres would inevitably and sadly homogenize into what is now simply referred to as "country" and lose their cultural identities.
@The_Unlucky_Wizard
11 ай бұрын
As someone from Springfield Missouri, I'm glad to know more about the place I grew up in. They didn't even teach us that in school.
@lexingtonconcord8751
5 ай бұрын
Southern Missouri Ozark Trivia: Movies: Outlaw Josey Wales Winter's Bone Book: Where the Red Fern Grows Famous Actor: Brad Pitt, born in Shawnee, OK, but grew up in Springfield MO
@corruptiongaming952
11 ай бұрын
A a born and raised Cape Girardeau man, I can say that the Ozarks are the best part in missouri. REPRESENT!!
@Papawcanner
4 ай бұрын
I occasionally lived with my grandparents in the Ozarks . They had no utilities . Living this way left me with a frugal attitude seldom seen today .
@Bogfrog1
Жыл бұрын
Now it makes sense why the tv show Ozark took place where it did. It’s such a juxtaposition to the Chicago, City folk family of the main characters and the rest of the surrounding, hillbilly culture
@lisalibeer7824
11 ай бұрын
The Ozarks are absolutely beautiful!! Well worth visiting!!
@enormocub5530
11 ай бұрын
Big Cabin, OK can be added to the civil war list, thank you for giving home a nod like this.
@robertlear2712
Жыл бұрын
My dad was born in 1907 in central Missouri. He told me about visiting some of his relatives in southern Missouri when he was a teenager, which was in the early 1920’s. From his description they were definitely hillbillies.
@ryangshooter_1682
Жыл бұрын
My family has been here since 1792 our roots run deep .
@mackelby1
11 ай бұрын
I was born and raised in the Ozarks, I live in central Missouri. In central Missouri the flat landers up here aren't any different than the hillbillies in the Ozarks. Actually with all the Amish and Mennonites up here in central Missouri I would say it's more hillbilly like in central Missouri. Yes Rogersville is all Amish, in the Ozarks. As long as you stay out of KC, St. Louis, Columbia and Springfield all Missourians are basically hillbillies.
@lf4061
11 ай бұрын
This video really just describes the southwest area of Missouri and the more tourist areas. South central Missouri was full of lumber and mining towns, cattle and hog farms and along the Mississippi river were french towns and farms, including pecan orchards in the settler periods. There is also an area that has many spring fed clear water rivers that is very popular for fishing, canoe and kayaking. The Lake of the Ozarks, Truman Lake, and Table Rock Lakes were created by damning up rivers and sadly flooding many small towns and farms. These lakes are now the big tourist areas and retirement areas with heavy recreational boating traffic. There are also winery areas, mainly along the Hwy 70 corridor ( the German settler founded town of Herman and the town of Augusta in the Missouri river bottom areas; but also in the St. James area southeast of there and near the town of St. Genevieve (which also has many french colonial historical sites open to the public for tours). Arkansas and Tennessee have some areas that are very similar to Missouri but still cultural, agricultural, and historical differences; as does Oklahoma. The “Ozark” area is not just a bunch of “hillbillys” as too many people have been made to believe but a diverse cultural and land use area. Many of our country’s most well known celebrities, politicians, historians, and scientists were brought up in this region.
@mailleweaver
11 ай бұрын
A lot of mining and lumber towns on the Arkansas side, too. Zinc was the big thing around Harrison. There's even a town named Zinc, though there's not much to it anymore. Mines shut down a long time ago.
@braxtonbradley-rd3me
11 ай бұрын
Our school played ozark in football and they have a mascot that has a gun that shoots blanks when then get a touchdown or goal not even kidding
@chaotic4433
11 ай бұрын
As an ozarkian, this video makes me incredibly happy! I love seeing our history being shared on a larger platform. I was a little worried this video was going to be a misinterpretation, but im very happy to have been proved wrong here lol
@bradymoore7675
3 ай бұрын
Lived in Branson and Fayetteville. Both great places. I specifically miss Branson. The people there are unbelievably kind.
@randydewees7338
11 ай бұрын
I lived the first 6 years of my life in Anderson Missouri, our house was a large 19th century school house on a dirt road and we had an apple orchard. My dad was a chemist by education, and we left this area to eventually land in Long Beach California after many moves. Our very first move in 1960 was to Pheonix Arizona, quite a culture change for a six year old hillbilly. My memories of the Ozarks are still vivid after 65 years.
@jedi_417
11 ай бұрын
I was raised in Anderson. It’ll always be home to me.
@TapdotWater
11 ай бұрын
As someone who grew up in the Ozarks, gotta say I love this video
@owenakin8466
Жыл бұрын
As someone living smack dab In the middle of South West Missouri this is about as accurate as it gets
@AnimalAce
11 ай бұрын
The bass pro aquarium in Springfield is amazing by the way. If your into aquariums highly recommend it!
@jasoncottom7759
11 ай бұрын
I live in Branson but I am a Navy brat. The locals here have a way different mindset than other places I have been to and lived in the US and overseas. With all the hollers, rugged woods, and lack of people outside of the city there is a reason why bootlegging and making moonshine were very profitable. Until recently the Ozarks was also home to the meth capital of the world, Rockaway Beach, MO. It happens to be next to Branson by mere miles. The majority of the local population descended from nationalities that were shunned by society at those times. Particularly the Scotts, Irish, Welsh, eastern Europeans and other minorities. That "stick it to the rest of American society" defiance has definitely passed down through the generations here. They can take a feud to a level the Hatfield's and McCoy's would have buckled under. But they do have some good music (Ozark Mountain Daredevils). All in all I have learned one thing as a life lesson: never underestimate hillbilies.
@ridiculous_renovations
11 ай бұрын
The ozarks are amazing. I have a waterfall next to a historic train tunnel behind the property and thats not even the coolest place out here. Coming from dfw, I look at everything around here and think that if it were in tx it would be 20 degrees hotter and would be special enough to be a state park which mean it would be over run with people 24/7.
@rickhill4720
11 ай бұрын
The Battle of Carthage was the first major skirmish of the Civil War, not the Battle of Wilson's Creek. The Battle of Carthage took place on July 5. Wilson's Creek was over a month later on August 10.
@WasatchWind
Жыл бұрын
I get your feeling with the exoticizing of your culture. It's what we get here in Utah as well. They are more interested in the myth that's been created about you than the actual history or real culture.
@thewitherking6474
4 ай бұрын
My home town🤩 thanks for the shout outs
@markc5593
11 ай бұрын
Grape vine cuttings from the Ozarks once saved the French wine industry.
@jamespilcher4069
3 ай бұрын
Very refreshing to see a video about home
@shottyblahhh
11 ай бұрын
NW Arkansas, here! Loved this!
@JSmusiqalthinka
4 ай бұрын
I'm also from the Ozarks (Arkansas part)! Thank you for thos video
@dirtcop11
11 ай бұрын
I grew up in Northeast Missouri, people called it "Little Dixie."
@ozarkrefugee
11 ай бұрын
That's because that area had lots of slaves.
@willhoss7396
4 ай бұрын
when I was sent to Ft.Leonard Wood by the marine corps after MCT many of the other guys there would refer to ozarks as a hillbilly shit hole. I used to go to the ozarks as a kid for vacation, being from East Kansas, so I always liked the region while I was there.
@darelshelton697
4 ай бұрын
Great Work! This is comprehensive and well-told.
@smokingunstudios6474
11 ай бұрын
I never would have guessed you were from my home region
@ACrowNamedPoe
11 ай бұрын
All I needed to know about the Ozarks is that they're the heart of brown recluse territory. A radius of about 500 miles from the Ozarks.
@jeFe_3636
11 ай бұрын
0:31 dude I love steel creek!
@rustyneuron
4 ай бұрын
I grew up in the Ozarks. The old stereotype is of course exaggerated, but it didn't develop in a vacuum. The stereotypes are just different now.
@lammborguni
4 ай бұрын
i left the ozarks but it’s always home. people really don’t get the charm and beauty of it and i’m just fine with that
@toddbowles8201
11 ай бұрын
I used to live in the Boston mountains. This was interesting
@james.morris247
11 ай бұрын
I've traveled all across the US and in my view, the Ozarks may be the most beautiful place in the USA. It rivals the Bad Lands of South Dakota.
@Dboyquicks10
5 ай бұрын
When I was a kid in the 70s Silver Dollar City was awesome.
@bugman72
11 ай бұрын
As a person born in Springfield and raised in Branson, I am proud to tell others that I am from the region. I appreciate the time and effort you have put into this video to show others that we aren't really "hicks" or "hillbillies" and the region in general laughs all the way to the bank by cashing in on the stereotypes that others love to come see and experience.
@slughoused
11 ай бұрын
I’m from Little Rock, and I run an auto road rally company based purely on how fantastic the roads are and pretty this place is
@DONKEYKONG260
11 ай бұрын
I live in-between Monet MO and Rogers AR. I honestly take hillbilly as a compliment. Better than redneck.
@CobbleBompster
11 ай бұрын
I have tons of family members who are in the region, I was born in Columbia, but moved to St. Louis.
@CobbleBompster
11 ай бұрын
@@slughousedthat paired with the awesome attractions in the area, specifically Silver Dollar City, which the theming in that park is on par with Disney and Universal theming, it’s incredible.
@jackdanson2
11 ай бұрын
@@CobbleBompsterSilver Dollar City is wonderful. I've been to dozens of theme parks across the country, and if you take price into account it's probably the best theme park in the country. Yes Disney and Universal are better parks, they also cost 5x as much to visit. Also I had a family member with a medical emergency while we were there and they were absolutely wonderful taking care of us. I'm also in a mixed race family so we had slight concerns about Branson, because you hear the rural stereotypes . And while we certainly stood out... it's not a diverse area.. we were treated completely normally and respectfully everywhere we went.
@ArakkoaChronicles
Жыл бұрын
Fun fact, as a European, I had no idea the Ozarks were a thing at all until I played the After the End mod for Crusader Kings 2. I looked around the are down there and saw like a kingdom of the Ozarks or something like that and thought "that's a weird name, I bet it's made up". Spoiler alert, it was not.
@jurajsoltis5077
Жыл бұрын
After the end has taught me a lot more than I like to admit
@sephikong8323
Жыл бұрын
Exactly the same for me. This mod was surprisingly informative (for something which allowed me to make a restored America following the writing of Lovecraft as if these were religious texts about the Gods of this world ....)
@georgebad4229
Жыл бұрын
Fun fact, as a New Englander I had no idea it was a thing until the show came out.
@RouxAroo666
Жыл бұрын
Glad you learned about our homehills. I love ATE partially because I can play my home region for the first time in any game.
@analienmango8756
Жыл бұрын
After the End bros rise up My favorite person to play is the chief of the Haida
@bessie8612
Жыл бұрын
As a Southern Appalachian, this seems very familiar, we even had a local silver dollar city
@TopHatJacks_alt
Жыл бұрын
I am also an inhabitant of the Southern Appalachian range and in the first minute I instantly saw parallels.
@NewHorizonsBeats
Жыл бұрын
Interesting. Colin Woodard, in his book “American Nations”, considered the Ozark region part of a nation he called “greater Appalachia.”
@mygills3050
Жыл бұрын
same here
@AdamSmith-gs2dv
Жыл бұрын
We still do, Dollywood is owned by the same people who own Silver Dollar City: Herschend Family Entertainment
@IncredibleMD
Жыл бұрын
The Ozarks are just a non-contiguous part of Appalachia.
@samdressman3055
Жыл бұрын
As a fellow Missourian, this was a really cool history lesson! Great job!
@TheOnlyCaprisun
Жыл бұрын
Hello Missourian! It still feels odd seeing others in the wild.
@cosmos9688
Жыл бұрын
@@TheOnlyCaprisun We aren't in the wild. We are too busy square dancing in Branson for that.
@TheOnlyCaprisun
Жыл бұрын
@@cosmos9688 True, true.
@tylerdarkcaster8322
Жыл бұрын
I grew up in the lead-mining region of MO! This was a really cool video, I hope Tigerstar does more on Ozark history and stuff.
@MasterOfCydonia
Жыл бұрын
I am a native born son of St.L, I have been to the Ozarks a few times. I always loved how you can travel 40ish minutes south of the city-county area and be plunged into a land that looks so radically different from every other region surrounding it.
@TheInternationalHistorian
11 ай бұрын
As an Oklahoman It was always strange how everyone thought we were entirely flat like the panhandle but the entire east half is either the Ozark foot hills or an entirely separate region of the Ouachita Mountains. Funnily enough even though the mountain range in the Ozarks touch the other, they are completely differently culturally somehow via the magic of the Arkansas river divide.
@RadarLeon
11 ай бұрын
In everyone's defence the western side is almost like a flat desolate wasteland I exaggerate but I do remember spiders hanging down out of the very few trees so many nightmares from my childhood
@larrycox7169
11 ай бұрын
I grew up on the western side of the state and love the prairie!! Retired to the Cookson Hills area on Lake Kerr. It's a whole different world. People here are distant and far less friendlier, but really good, hard-working folks. The area is very poor, and jobs are scarce. I worry about the future for most. Wheat, oil-gas, wind and solar make the western half of Oklahoma better for families. Better weather and fishing make the eastern half retirement paradise. Ohhh, and CHEAPER!!!
@christophersharp1884
11 ай бұрын
I'm a fellow Oklahoman and jobs are becoming scarce all over Oklahoma. It seems right now that everyone that was privately owned is closing or working for the government to survive. with war and rising prices, I'm worried it will get only worse for Oklahoma. especially the cost of electricity is out of the roof in cost almost as much as my first house payments. @@larrycox7169
@apexkiller66-94
11 ай бұрын
@@RadarLeonWichita mountains?? Like did you explore?
@Grizzlox
11 ай бұрын
I grew up in Amarillo, with family from all over Oklahoma and I moved to Missouri. Oklahoma is like 4 different "States" rolled into one. The Oklahoma panhandle is just a hybrid between NW Texas and Kansas. Western Oklahoma is the prairie that everyone thinks of. Eastern Oklahoma is basically "Hey Ozarkians, you can come here to gamble but you have to pay the toll." While southern Oklahoma is, "Hey Texans, you can come here to gamble but you have to pay the toll."
@Nate_Higgins
11 ай бұрын
As a born and raised Ozarker, I love seeing this content. I'm from Fayetteville, and I can tell you that we are now becoming Little Austin. I feel like the migration of Californians to Texas is coinciding with a migration of Texans to NW Arkansas.
@jbetnar
11 ай бұрын
Ugh, keep em out
@jesseroggio7260
11 ай бұрын
You're exactly right, and the fact they're now paying the same amount for tuition as Arkansans doesn't help. It's changed drastically since I got here in 1997. Im from Murfreesboro AR originally.
@PolkRidgeAesthete
11 ай бұрын
That's certainly distressing to hear. Fayetteville has had enough trouble with "diversity" for years, anyway, as has much of the rest of northwest Arkansas.
@katie7748
11 ай бұрын
Mmhmm I loathe what's happening to NW AR
@ridiculous_renovations
11 ай бұрын
That's me. Doing a massive remodel on my channel in the ozarks, (Boston mountain area) after fleeing dfw to get away from traffic, heat, smog and property taxes.
@iankocur8397
Жыл бұрын
Point of pronunciation: "Aux arcs" would actually be pronounced pretty similar to Ozark. Aux is normally pronounced as "oh", but since the next word begins with a vowel you carry over and pronounce the x (with a z sound) to make it flow.
@tomislavmirkovic1126
Жыл бұрын
Liaisonage
@StrummaChick
Жыл бұрын
I learned in my Missouri Ozarks HS French class that Aux Arcs is exactly where the name came from Great comment
@Smytjf11
11 ай бұрын
Oh, no. Please don’t come here. If I told you how they pronounce the names here you’d faint.
@psyoptic
11 ай бұрын
@@Smytjf11 Gotta love how we say Nevada, Versailles, and Auxvasse. La Plata is probably wrong too
@goosenotmaverick1156
11 ай бұрын
In Arkansas there's a town called Oark too, which is pronounced roughly the same as you've described.
@Rauruatreides
Жыл бұрын
Representation for those of us in the Ozarks is much appreciated.
@rotomfan63
Жыл бұрын
Sounds like Appalachia without the coal wars arch
@crazychase98
Жыл бұрын
Pretty much
@dlynn2634
Жыл бұрын
We had that in Illinois Ozarks, look up bloody williamson
@everettduncan7543
11 ай бұрын
Ozarks are defined instead by lead
@pageboy25
11 ай бұрын
@@everettduncan7543Well coal mining was pretty important at the foothills of the Southern Ozarks. Pretty considerable coal industry there. Nothing like Appalachia though. Lead really wasn’t as big of a deal as it sounds. It was a pretty important industry in the 1830’s and 1840’s, but after the civil war, the lead industry subsided hard.
@TheRelen222
11 ай бұрын
In my hometown, the mines finally closed down around the 1940s. I remember sliding down chat piles in sleds as a kid, before the EPA cleaned everything up.
@michaelbenge2388
11 ай бұрын
We are proud Ozark-Americans. Don’t confuse our laid back culture of manners as being unintelligent. You’d be mistaken. 😊
@kedeglow2743
5 ай бұрын
Amen!
@Adam-hl5rx
4 ай бұрын
Don't let the folks of the Ozarks fool you. I'm from the ouchitas and they are just as backwards as us... lol. Jk. Most of us ar good hearted hard working people
@FlyingAlfredoSaucer
Жыл бұрын
I'm from the Ozarks! Specifically, from Ozark (a city in Missouri.) I always love to see local history, Missouri is a lot more important than people give it credit for.
@bawicz0
Жыл бұрын
Ork
@MegrelMamba
Жыл бұрын
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@Weavileiscool
Жыл бұрын
Ah yes, Ozark, Missouri, in the Ozarks
@pancsaer2
Жыл бұрын
Isn't there like 5 different towns called Ozark in the Ozarks?
@FlyingAlfredoSaucer
Жыл бұрын
@@pancsaer2 There's one in Missouri and one in Arkansas, I don't know of any others though.
@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
11 ай бұрын
The Osage were originally known as the Ni-U-Kon-Ska, which means "children of the middle waters". The Osage inhabited a vast territory that formerly included Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kansas as well as the area between the Missouri and Red rivers, thus their name. Today they call themselves Wah-Zha-Zhi or Wahzhazhe, which was translated by French explorers and fur traders as Ouazhigi, which later became the English name Osage. Osage life centred on religious ceremonials in which clans were divided into symbolic sky and earth groups, with the latter further subdivided to represent dry land and water. The Osage were remarkable for their poetic rituals. Among them was the custom of reciting the history of the creation of the universe to each newborn infant. After they were forced off Kansas to Oklahoma, on reservation land that they bought, oil was discovered on their land in Oklahoma. They had retained communal mineral rights during the allotment process, and many Osage became wealthy through returns from leasing fees generated by their headrights. However, during the 1920s and what was known as the Reign of Terror, they suffered manipulation, fraud, and numerous murders by outsiders eager to take over their wealth.
@jbos5107
11 ай бұрын
Thank you for your comment. I admit the only thing I ever heard of was the Osage murders. A terrible story. Your comment was about their beauty. We need to remember both stories.
@laserflexr6321
11 ай бұрын
@@jbos5107 What we all should learn is the WHOLE story, not a cherry picked subset to further an agenda of division.
@patrickbledsoe2176
11 ай бұрын
I live here and this is Cherokee territory now
@snowdest
11 ай бұрын
Thank you for educating us Supreme Leader. :) Seriously, though. I appreciate the added context for the history of native peoples.
@markwilliams5606
11 ай бұрын
So many Had to go West. Greed is the word. Great place for Family.🦌🦃🦆🍖
@stevenroetzel4470
11 ай бұрын
As a German- Scots Irish Hillbilly from the Ozarks, I kept waiting for you to screw up the history of my family/region, but you never did. The best explanation of the Ozarks ever. The only thing that was left out to my mind was the fact that the Boston Mountains are the Oldest (and therefore the smallest) Mountains on the Continent. Beautifully Well Done Sir.
@marykab106
11 ай бұрын
I totally agree. I grew up in Springfield Mo, and after some years of traveling a lot, i moved back into my parent's home and into my old bedroom :) i had missed a lot of the things we take for granted in Southwest Missouri. I can walk out our front door and go for a run on safe trails with pretty views. It's a pretty easy drive to Kansas City if you want more options for food and entertainment. Not that we don't have plenty in the Springfield area. There seems to be a bit more violent crime now in Springfield than when I was growing up. I figured it was drug-related and it seems to be that and the gangs that can spring up in an environment like that. I won't stay here forever, I am not sure where I will head next. I do love the Midwest and Ozark areas. I would tell people I met on my travels that I was a hillbilly, though that was hardly the case. So great to hear a big KZitemr talking about our area along with doing that as part of a bigger program of historians talking about their home town areas :) BTW, he failed to mention that to some extent, Route 66 was "created" in Springfield :) OK, it was just the name, but .... naming is marketing! :) Keep up the good work!
@heatherc.7706
11 ай бұрын
geologist here! the Boston Mountains are very old, but the reason they are so small is because they are not, by the geological definition, mountains. (none of the Ozarks are). The Ozarks are actually three stacked plateaus (the Boston Mountains, Springfield, and Salem Plateaus) which have been strongly eroded to create the characteristic hill-and-holler landscape. You can see this very clearly in the road cuts on I-49: the rock layers are all flat and mostly horizontal, whereas in 'true' mountains they form zigzag patterns due to folding.
@GeckoHiker
11 ай бұрын
As a former resident of Appalachia and current Ozarks resident I have to correct the mountain age statement. The Appalachian mountain chain is the oldest on the North American continent, and in Ireland, Scotland, and Greenland where it also resides. Evening having a Cherokee and Irish lineage this is not blarney.
@MelonHead78
11 ай бұрын
The arbuckle mountains are older
@heatherc.7706
11 ай бұрын
@@GeckoHiker to clarify, the 'greater Appalachian' system is the oldest on the continent. but it includes most if not all of the mountains east of the Great Plains (including the Ouachitas in SW Arkansas), not just the Appalachian cultural region. In general the mountains get older as you move North and West toward the interior of the continent.
@impalaman9707
11 ай бұрын
Granted that most of the Ozarks is in Missouri, I wished that you had given some attention to Northern Arkansas and the Cherokee Nation of Eastern Oklahoma in your doc. They are as much a part of the Ozarks as Southern Missouri is. I believe Eastern Oklahoma is "Where the Red Fern Grows" took place, and was just as much an important film and book about the Ozarks as "Shepherd of the Hills"
@lacyLor
11 ай бұрын
Yeah I think the Eureka Springs area is even more beautiful than Branson, although the tourism isn’t nearly as big.
@impalaman9707
11 ай бұрын
@@lacyLor FYI--first time I ever ate quiche was in Eureka Sprs and have been eating it ever since. And I'm a man! Also, thank goodness they have remained unspoiled by tourism, as so many others have
@lacyLor
11 ай бұрын
@@impalaman9707 Hey quiche is for everyone, it’s delicious! 😂 There’s been a poverty and drug problem amongst the locals there for awhile now. I’ve wondered if there was a more prosperous tourism industry like in Branson if the economy would have fared better but who knows. But I would agree the natural beauty there is pretty unspoiled, which is awesome.
@GabrielTheExplorer254
11 ай бұрын
@@lacyLor Nah, Branson still has their fair share of meth heads.
@janinedahl-labbe9220
5 ай бұрын
Sad to hear any of this as I live up here in the Ozarks in Arkansas it's very serene and breathtakingly Beautiful 14:48
@jovannib2913
11 ай бұрын
It was so cool too watch this being born and raised in the Ozarks, then when you mentioned Brooks. I’m a Blevins and my family was full of good ole Missouri hillbillies, there are still some to this day. They originally were like any other settlers/pioneers but after long they either played into the label or never fully recovered from the Great Depression and left with no choice but to embrace the label. Being poor lead to a lack of proper dental care and medicine, strange diets, and strange means of being resourceful in the hills. These hardships helped them fit the criteria that much more. My family knows how to be goofy without worrying about judgement because they know people will assume whatever they want as long as the criteria fits. They are fun people and have lived quite the lives…I had a great uncle get kidnapped by Bonnie and Clyde during a shootout in the ozarks…..and a great grandpa who met Jesse James. They have the wildest stories I’ve ever heard and I even believe I’ve heard stories of Gold in caves.
@rb3011
11 ай бұрын
I know some Blevins’ here in Bentonville, my hometown. I love being from here, especially back when it was a piddly little town with nothing but a ballpark, ONE Walmart, a few gas stations and restaurants.
@redcaddiedaddie
11 ай бұрын
There was a 'Hollis Blevins' in Pierce City when I lived there...kin?
@stephenhargrave7922
11 ай бұрын
Not to mention being deliberately starved under martial law after the civil war. Causes long term health problems that are generational.
@nikkigriffith6778
11 ай бұрын
Amazing thank you for sharing! My family has hillbilly and they are the salt of the earth!
@MrCashewkitty
7 ай бұрын
I've known a lot of good Blevin's around the Branson/Forsyth and surrounding areas.
@CivilWarWeekByWeek
Жыл бұрын
As a fellow Missouri man I say we free the Ozarks from our state so they don’t have to be under Jefferson City.
@beknown63
Жыл бұрын
If you wanna get REAL technical, Jefferson City lies on the very northern tip of the Ozark Plateau. (Culturally it’s absolutely not the same thing, though)
@Smytjf11
11 ай бұрын
What if we spiritually kicked the capitol to the other side of the river? Maybe Gasconade county will help, somehow the boys in Chamois got their hands on a warship they’ve got stashed on yonder river outside Morrison. It was supposed to be on the other side anyway but we got done dirty by the King of Spain.
@moredsea
11 ай бұрын
😂yo
@everettduncan7543
11 ай бұрын
The Ozarks are part of the reason Jeff City is crap. St Louis and KC's suburbs are the other
@Smytjf11
11 ай бұрын
@@everettduncan7543 They're welcome to leave at any time 😅
@animesucks9863
Жыл бұрын
I live in the Northwest Arkansas area and I absolutely love every bit of the gorgeous mountains I'm in. You can take the boy out of the mountains, but you can't take the mountains out of the boy
@Memento_Mori_Morals
Жыл бұрын
I find the Ozarks some of the prettiest scenery I have seen in the country tbh, and I have been to many parks in many states.... I just love the sort of environment that comes from the weather, all the lush green.
@AnthonyR-z8y
25 күн бұрын
Well before outsiders and califs moved in and ruined it. I am a nwa born and raised old man. It has changed😢
@OzMonster88
18 күн бұрын
I was born and raised in Fayetteville and will never move anywhere else because there is so much to do in our backyard already.
@ozarkrefugee
Жыл бұрын
He failed to mention that most of the people in upper Ozark region (in the MO River valley,) were not Scots/Irish, that area is mostly German and Catholic and how those in the Herman area have produced some of the finest German wines. There are also some areas where Italians settled too.
@Memento_Mori_Morals
Жыл бұрын
....I wonder if this is why my scot turned german ancestors settled around there!
@ozarkrefugee
Жыл бұрын
Could be, the German immigrants settled the MO River valley because it was so much like the Rhine River valley in their homeland. Also because there was a large German population in the St. Louis area and plenty of markets to sell products/livestock/produce/wine/etc. I had some German/Swiss ancestors that lived around the present day Herman and Berger area in the mid1800's, then they moved to Iowa territory for a time, then settled in southwest MO.
@peachykeen3626
Жыл бұрын
My grandparents were from Moravia (Czechoslovakia) and lived in kimmswick via fayetteville TX. My mother's side goes back to Meriwether Lewis family and Virginians/ohioans who converted to Mormonism for a time. So much more history than is mentioned here in this video but a good start
@ianisles2537
Жыл бұрын
Yep, I'm mostly German and Indian. And if you don't like it you can go eat a duck butter sandwich, lol 😂
@WishfoolWitch
Жыл бұрын
@@ozarkrefugee I never in a million years would have guessed I’d see Berger, MO mentioned on a KZitem comment. We’re probably distant cousins 😂
@couragecoachsam
3 ай бұрын
I grew up near Appalachia, living with my wife now who grew up in the Ozarks. I love hills, forests, and thunderstorms.
@aaronTGP_3756
Жыл бұрын
As a Springfield resident, it's good to see my homeland getting coverage.
@goose93
Жыл бұрын
Bro which Springfield there are like a thousand of them
@yaboiandrew2058
Жыл бұрын
@@goose93the one from the Simpsons
@highway2heaven91
Жыл бұрын
@@goose93Missouri
@waldo_9338
Жыл бұрын
@@goose93 The one in the Ozarks smart guy
@Weavileiscool
Жыл бұрын
@@goose93Bro the one in the Ozarks that also happens to be the most populous one
@Grizzlox
11 ай бұрын
I'm a Texan that moved to Southwest Missouri in 2009. I absolutely love the Ozarks and I'm proud to now call them home.
@soggyrecluse7302
11 ай бұрын
Please stop driving on the shoulders, that’s not a thing here
@jacksonramsey4848
Жыл бұрын
You should cover the Ouachita mountain region, now since they lie directly below the ozarks
@rodjacobs3396
11 ай бұрын
Or to cover more of the Arkansas side of the Ozarks for that matter.
@13_cmi
11 ай бұрын
@@rodjacobs3396Arkansas has much more impressive mountains. Missouri ain’t got nothing on the Boston mountains. Prettiest place I’ve ever seen that’s within a 12 hour drive from home.
@alexmason5521
2 ай бұрын
@@13_cmithose aren’t impressive at all. Beautiful sure. But not “impressive”
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