Ozark Hunting Stories

Episode 17 is available for download.
(36:14minutes, 14.6MB, MP3)

This episode features hunting stories recorded as part of the Shiloh Museum’s ongoing oral history project. The audio clips have been converted from cassette tapes to digital so in some instances the audio quality is poor. We have only edited them to reduce background noise; the content has not been edited other than for time considerations.

You will hear excerpts from interviews with Ruth Morris of Washington County and Oren Austin of Madison County. The program will conclude with a must-have tall tale about hunting collected by Ozark folklorist Vance Randolph and retold by
Dr. Bob Cochran, Professor of English, Chair of American Studies,and Director of the Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

The Museum thanks Aaron Seifritz for supplying the hunting calls heard in this program. The hunting horn was excerpted with permission from 'Ed and His Hounds' by Doney Hammontree, and is part of the Mary C. Parler Folksong Collection, Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville.

The exhibit Open Season on hunting in the Ozarks opened August 20 and runs through January 19, 2008.