PLATE 1. Smallin Cave entrance at night. Smallin Cave BY JOSHUA HESTON (STATE OF THE OZARKS JOURNAL, OCTOBER 29, 2010) Here in this dark holler of the Ozarks is a cave of great and powerful majesty. The Osage people called this the Place of the Underground Spirit — Winoca. And here I sit in the…
PLATE 1. Missouri winter and spring branch. The Eau de Vie by Joshua Heston The spring branch still runs at the Eau de Vie, (pronounced O-divy), that desolate Missouri ghost town abandoned by the mid-1890s. Remants, and there are few, are scattered over three lonely, beautiful hillsides, thick with oak and cedar. PLATE 2. The…