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Folk wisdom differs from region to region, and the Ozark Mountain variety was, and still is, peculiar and very special to the residents of this grand range. Generally, early on Ozarkers, though scattered, were bound alongside one another by common geography, religion, ethnic background, dialect, customs, dress, structures, and even hardship. Wisdom as it related to survival and just getting by was gathered and freely distributed among these isolated residents. The people living throughout the Ozark Mountains often had to depend on one another for treatment, weather and crop information, and any number of other elements associated with moving into a distant environment far from stores, physicians, and newspapers.
