ShareGargoyle Country: The Inspiring Geology of Springfield and Green County
Jerry D. Vineyard Watershed Press
No ISBN
137 pages. $24.95 (See text for ordering)
Reviewed by Jo Schaper
The name, “Gargoyle Country” comes from the pockmarked and strangely weathered shapes of local limestone (primarily the Burlington, although similar strata weather into weird shapes as well) seen along the bluffs, [...]

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Leland Payton
ISBN 0-9673925-0-0 1999 80 pages. $19.95
See The Ozarks: The Touristic Image
Leland and Crystal Payton
ISBN 0-9673925-1-9 2003 $24.95
Mystery of the Irish Wilderness
Leland and Crystal Payton
ISBN 978-9673925-4-7 2008 $18.95
A trio of books, two by Leland and Crystal Payton, and one by Leland himself, showed up on request at [...]

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“Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.” – Mark Twain.
Only a son of Missouri could come up with that quote, announcing the famous fickleness of this state’s meteorology, but it has taken Don Corrigan, to document just exactly what Twain was talking about.
Name any form of extreme weather [...]

ShareBluegill….Fly Fishing & Flies
Terry & Roxanne Wilson
Illustrated by Lefty Wilson
Frank Amato Publications, Inc.
ISBN 978-1-57188-176-2
$16.95    151 p.
Bluegill, for many people, means farm pond fishing with standard rigs, and live bait for fish stunted by overpopulation and sub prime habitat.
If you are one of those people, the Wilsons’ book will open an entirely new bluegill reality [...]

Share“Honey, He Shrunk My Head!”
John Meacham
Lordnose Publishing • Chester, IL
ISBN 0-9679594-0-3
$10.00 192 p.
Every book deserves to be somewhere. John Meacham’s “Honey, He Shrunk My Head!” deserves to be on an unfinished pine board and brick shelf in a deer camp cabin, or next to the fireplace in a fishing lodge, dog-eared [...]

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Reviewed by Jo Schaper. Usually Traveler reviews only books that we sell. We’re always on the lookout for books about the Missouri outdoors to recommend to our readers, and so much the better if we can carry them too.
Sometimes there is an exception that proves the rule, as is in the case of Show-Me [...]

ShareThere is a time for love and laughter
The days will pass like summer storms
The winter wind will follow after
But there is love and love is warm
“There is a Time”… Lyrics by Rodney Dillard/Mitch Jayne
Mitch Jayne, humorist, bass player for the bluegrass/newgrass band The Dillards, language scholar and Ozark storyteller, passed away August 2, 2010, in [...]

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By Emery Styron
Traveler Editor
If you enjoy Traveler, there’s a good chance you’d find Don Corrigan’s book, Show Me…Natural Wonders, a satisfying read.
Corrigan, a veteran St. Louis journalist and college professor, has the same kind of appreciation for the region’s natural environment that we often encounter in Traveler readers. But he has ranged much further [...]