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Let's see...
Tiny SoMo towns...
I'm gonna go with either:
1- Springfieldia
2- Nixa
3- Bransonia
4- Willow Springs
5- West Plains
6- Poplar Bluff
7- Cape
If you aren't around any of those, you are way into the sticks.
Anyhoo, you should totally read some Vance Randolph. He knows the Ozarks far too well. His two best:
https://www.amazon.com/Pissing-Snow-Other-Ozark-Folktales/dp/0252013646
https://www.amazon.com/Ozark-Magic-Folklore-Vance-Randolph/dp/0486211819/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2/191-2605828-6252717?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=K73AQM869NR8ACCSV3X4
A informal biography of Randolph
The book itself.
It's a fun one. The hand-mimeographed original circulated in the academic folklore world for a long time before the commercial book came out. Randolph published a lot of good important stuff, but this is what he's remembered for.
The title tale was chosen because it was one of the most common jokes found across the Appalachians/Ozarks by not just Vance, but many of his colleagues.
It makes you wonder how many other seminal collectors had private folders of "unprintable" stuff...
Close enough.. I'm pretty sure it was from this:
http://www.amazon.com/Pissing-Snow-Other-Ozark-Folktales/dp/0252013646