An Ozarks Minute Of Rocks and Hogs

Did you know that according to legend the Ozark mountains owe their very existence to razorback hogs of long ago? (This was, I suppose, at the time when the razorbacks roamed the earth with the dinosaurs.) At the time, the Ozarks land was very flat, covered with huge oak trees. The hogs that fed off the giant acorns grew so large they became gargantuan and fierce. One year the acorn crop, or mast, failed to produce, and the enormous beasts grew so hungry that they went raging up and down the land in search of food. They dug and rooted so deep in the ground that gravel and rock scattered "ever which a-way." This ripping and tearing turned the once flat land into nothing but deep hollers and high hills that we know as the Ozark Mountains.