Mountain Echoes

Joyce White's second book in her ranching series describes the family's 1964 spring arrival in the Ozarks with cattle, horses and cow-dogs from remote Burro Creek Canyon, Arizona. Hoping for greener pastures and more rainfall, they begin improving their 400-acre stock farm and the 1920s two-story house. And that's when the mishaps and adventures begin! Her husband and son soon learn how different ranching is in the Missouri Ozarks from Texas and Arizona. They introduce Charolais cattle and Catahoula cowdogs to the area, then pasture irrigation when a drought hits. The author shares customs and recipes from the Hill Country. Mountain Echoes is a homey, humorous, hectic account of settling in the Ozarks and the hardships endured to better their lives; a book for all ages to be read aloud or enjoyed quietly.