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Mystery of the Irish Wilderness

Mystery of the Irish Wilderness: Land and Legend of Father John Joseph Hogan's Lost Irish Colony in the Ozark Wilderness
Leland & Crystal Payton
ISBN: 978-0-9673925-4-7
128 pages 7x10 inches paper color throughout

Price: $18.95

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James Fork of the White

James Fork Of The White: Transformation Of An Ozark River
Leland & Crystal Payton
ISBN: 978-0-9673925-6-1
352 pages 7.5 x 10 over 450 photographs and graphics

Price: $35.00

Price: $31.50

Lover's Leap Legends

Lover's Leap Legends: From Sappho of Lesbos to Wah-Wah-Tee of Waco
Leland & Crystal Payton
ISBN: 978-0-9673925-9-2
352 pages 7.5×10
511 color illustrations

Price: $35.00

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Buy Missouri Squarely Seen in print on Amazon.

Missouri Squarely Seen - PDF

This is only for the PDF ebook version of this title. You will receive a link to download the PDF upon purchase. The link will last for 1 week. Leland Payton has lived in Missouri all his life and his photographs show Missouri as a lived-in place. Old buildings, old men, and faded pieced quilts airing in the backyard he believes are as worthy of representation as Ozark creeks in the spring or native prairies at dawn. All the photographs were taken with a square format camera. His wild rivers are framed as straightforwardly as the St. Louis street scenes. Payton doesn’t play favorites. A page away from rich Kansas Citians contemplating high art are State Fair goers contemplating carnival art. The center state is a confluence of ecology and culture of the north, south, east and west. He depicts places and faces imprinted by these natural and historic forces. Missouri-ness has rarely been so intimately and credibly captured.

Price: $9.95

Buy Ozark Prairie Border in print on Amazon.

Ozark Prairie Border - PDF

This is only for the PDF ebook version of this title. You will receive a link to download the PDF upon purchase. The link will last for 1 week. Leland Payton admits the region where the Osage Plains and the Ozark uplift merge is topographically subtle. Still, he found eye-catching relic native prairies and a striking if melancholy architectural record of its American occupation. Driving the lonely farm-to-market roads he concluded “dawn is kind to bland scenery and old farmhouses.” As he organized his shots from these sojourns into western Missouri he realized they were not unlike drawings he did in high school when he borrowed the family Studebaker to explore the prairie border landscape that lay just south of Sedalia.

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On the Mission in Missouri

ON THE MISSION IN MISSOURI & FIFTY YEARS AGO: A MEMOIR
Bishop John Joseph Hogan
ISBN: 978-0-9673925-5-4
224 pages 7x10 inches

Price: $25.00

Price: $22.50

See the Ozarks

See the Ozarks: The Touristic Image
Leland & Crystal Payton
ISBN: 978-0-9673925-1-9
96 pages 8x10 inches hardback all color

Price: $24.95

Price: $22.50

The Beautiful and Enduring Ozarks

The Beautiful and Enduring Ozarks
Leland Payton
ISBN: 978-0-9673925-0-0
80 pages 8x8 inches paper color throughout

Price: $19.95

Price: $17.95

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