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Rude Pursuits and Rugged Peaks: Schoolcraft's Ozark Journal, 1818-1819 (Arkansas Classics) (1st Edition) by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Milton D. Rafferty (Editor) Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 1996 ISBN-10: 1-55728-466-0 / 1557284660 ISBN-13: 978-1-55728-466-2 / 9781557284662 In the winter of 1818, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft set out from Potosi, Missouri, to document lead mines in the interior of the Ozarks, then a wilderness of near-virgin forests, limestone cliffs, prairies, and oak savannahs. Intending only to make his fortune by publishing an account of the area’s minera |