Treehouse an Ozark Story

[@kar702]

I’m watching this in 2024 and it kind of makes me lonesome here in the outskirts of a city. Sadly we can never go back but thanks for this great video and the memories.

[@dianabrakefield8438]

Just want to say its nice to see the kind words from you folks, yes his kind of mindset is deep in most of us. This is my great grandfather and a huge part of our family history. Hope people continue to enjoy this

[@ChrisBrown-ww8gu]

He is my grandpa ti

[@88Beccca]

I grew up in Steelville in the 70's & 80's, but I never had the chance to meet Ralph Brown. Could you possibly tell me where I can get this video on DVD, I'd like to purchase a copy & so would certain people in my family? Thank you.

[@tennesseesawmillguy1590]

I enjoy and share.

[@the_birthday_skeleton]

༎ຶ‿༎ຶ your grandfather seems such a wise and wonderful soul.

[@Ms.Jinxie]

Hi, Diana - he was first cousins with my paternal grandmother, Laverna Brown Keeney. I remember many a float trip taken as a family down the Huzzah in the 70s.

[@showmestateredneck5820]

As native born Missourian loved watching this video see nice good ole country folk with true southern ties and traditions

[@fritzasher]

ralph brown was a one of a kind character to have the privilege to know. He was my neighbor & I learned a lot from him.... it was an honor.....

[@deborahchesser7375]

Fritz Asher I bet it was, those older fellers no how to git er dun

[@cecilpotter1229]

All true Missouri Boy's are BAD Ass, I am happy to be one myself as my dad and his Dad and his Father before him, hard work even if you are lame from Missouri you can make it, I love you miss Missouri USA

[@ozarkmountains4947]

Arkansas boys are true bad ass

[@jmcraven1]

I used to hall hay for Earl Halbert pictured here and cracking his whip. The whole hay hauling team was myself Jerry "Mac" McRaven , Dale Bishop, Perry Reed, and Larry Lewis. We put up a lot of hay @ 2 cents a bale in 1968.

[@84jamesp]

That’s awesome

[@hoosieroutdoorist2826]

Our time will go and be forgotten. The younger generation doesn't seem to care about the old times and old country way of living. Things that our grandfathers taught us and their grandfathers taught them. I,m glad that I was a part of that learning experience from my grandfather.

[@alexanderlight1540]

I hate this younger generation but I still live the way my grandpa taught me and they way his taught him and I’m lucky and happy to have the figures and teachers that I have

[@Razorbackchemist]

There are a few of us that continue as much as we can in the old ways.

[@XrayxRich]

I originally saw this on St. Louis PBS-9 in the late 1980s. I bought three DVDs of this when they were available because my maternal Grand Parents were from Boss Missouri. Gave them to my kids and kept one. It's nice that I came across this video. Thanks to Brewer & Shipley.

[@maryyoung8296]

Watching this video was quite relaxing. Mary & I live in a log cabin up on a bluff overlooking the Huzzah Creek. We always say it's one of the best views in Missouri. Down along the riverbank, there're remains from the logging days. Mary remembers since she was a young child, seeing the logs tied together with chicken wire and filled with rocks to form a triangle. She's always heard it was a means of knocking the timber back into the river so as to not wash ashore on the flat filed areas.

[@enoch1680]

Knew him since I was a child. Good depiction. Learned how to carry a canoe on my shoulders watching him. Camped on 'his' gravel bar. Not a man to mess with though. As he said, treat him with respect and he would treat you well. Lots of mythology about people who didn't. Didn't go well for them. I tend to believe most of the stories, particularly since I heard a number of them from him. He was not a liar.

[@jamesbrown23]

@enoch1680 this was my grandfather but never got to meet him. Do you have any stories to share somehow?

[@88Beccca]

Ralph Brown will have more of my respect than anyone from MY generation. It's amazing to see how much he has done, how strong he was, how he's kept going after all of that time & after all he has been put through. I was taught about him, but I never met him in person. Everything that my mother taught me about that man is so true & so wonderful. He's one that I can greatly admire from that town.

[@alexanderlight1540]

Amen

[@saipan4208]

I'm watching this in 2020

[@the_birthday_skeleton]

༎ຶ‿༎ຶ i'm watching in 3030, so there

[@jambocoo]

Hard life lived by tough men. Truly admire them and could listen to these oldtimers stories all day long.

[@bazzinbulgaria4826]

Has to be one of the most interesting videos I have watched in a very long time. Real people with a real story to tell. Well done.

[@alexanderlight1540]

This is amazing I’m glad I live in this town I love it and I know the rivers like the back of my hand

[@jimmyblevins2018]

Love knowing these were the people working the land before me. The roots of the Missouri mountains.

[@alexanderlight1540]

Right there with ya on that

[@whatabouttheearth]

Except there really arent mountains, they are just hills. I dont know why they're reffered to as the "Ozark Mountains"

[@l.douglas8066]

Thank you ! Wonderful video ! A bunch of great Men. Treehouse Brown is Awesome. More like this please !

[@michaelharvey5138]

Brilliant interesting video !..

[@terribrauch6165]

Ralph and daughter Rose shuttled us many times on the Huzzah and Courtois. What a character!

[@ChrisBrown-ww8gu]

Rose brown?

[@buckskinkk1]

I met him many years ago he was one heck of a man

[@alexanderlight1540]

Cheryl Brown yes rose brown is his daughter

[@ricksspringfield45]

Floated them southern creeks and rivers...Huzzah, Black, Current, Meramec, Gasconade...Beautiful country we have here in Mo.

[@alexanderlight1540]

The most beautiful

[@brand3820]

A time long forgotten..What a shame!

[@steveontiveros5425]

Thank you for posting this video , absolutely the way it is . Love the country people of the Ozark’s . Most are very down to earth good people . I’m from California and have my oldest son and grandkids in Springfield . Funny how they (my grandkids)want to move to California where it’s dry and cost and arm an a leg to live . People in California are the worst , always in a hurry and angry . I live in Strafford where it’s green ,lots of water and outdoor stuff to do and hick my blood pressure is down lol . I purchased a nice 4 br 2 bath cabin on 15 acres with a well . One of my granddaughters and her husband and 2 kids live with me .I know the weather isn’t the greatest for a lot of people but for me I love it and I love the seasons ! The people here are the best .

[@jeneka0989]

You sure sound blessed and I want to live the country life too!

[@steveontiveros5425]

jeneka0989 I hope it happens soon for you :)

[@cravenmoorehead7099]

Steve Ontiveros i live in Malibu and find the people fantastic! Educated, sophisticated, confident and interesting! I was in the Ozarks jan 12 and 13 of this year in a place called “mountain home”. I found the people down to earth...but unable to carry a conversation

[@thegeorgiacreekwalker491]

Steve Ontiveros I have alot of family in Springfield and all around that area...my dad is from the area but came to Georgia in the late sixties and that's where I'm from (Cherokee County) but I have alot of family from my dad's side up in Missouri...three sisters, niece's, nephews, cousins, aunt's and uncles... I'm a Cummings and I'm told there's alot of us up there...my cousin told me there's a place called Cummings Ridge I think somewhere outside of Branson... I use to visit alot when I was a kid but I haven't been up there in about 20 years... I lived in Springfield with my sister last time I was up there for about three months and I loved it... people are really nice up there and there's alot of good fishing too which is a plus for me... Springfield is getting pretty over run though... it's a college town and there's alot of cocky young folk wanting to start trouble... I think it's Greene County? And it's on live PD alot lol... it's definitely changed alot since the time my dad grew up there but if you get out in the country a little more you come across the people that are still hanging on to those always help your neighbor country values that I really respect... it's a shame that all over the country we're losing those small town values and it's a shame that so many uppity snobby people see those people as narrow minded when in fact many of them are the salt of the Earth and have in many ways held this country together... many of them are the ones who stepped up and fought for this country when it was needed... young people today don't respect those values and that's why this country is going to shit... I have alot of family up there I've never met and I would really like to go visit again and maybe attend a family reunion...my Dad passed away a few years ago...he was the oldest of six brother's and he outlived them all...it would mean alot to me if I could meet some of his kin and and maybe hear some stories about my dad and my uncle's when they were younger... I've heard they were hell raisers when they were young...my dad's youngest brother died racing cars when he was very young so I never got to meet him... never got to meet my grandpa either and I'm named after him...he died a month before I was born...he had a heart attack while roofing my uncle's house around Springfield... anyway maybe some of your family and my family know each other... it's a small world you never know

[@thegeorgiacreekwalker491]

Craven Moorehead unable to carry on a conversation? Why? Because you are so intellectually superior? If that's the case then just stay in Cali so you and the rest of the intellectually superior can look down on country folk with your collective sense of superiorty you fucking self righteous dickhead!!!! I can't stand people like you that look down on other people like they're ignorant but ironically enough you're the one with the mind that is so narrow you're incapable of understanding and appreciating anyone who thinks differently or lives a different lifestyle... I'll pray for you though... hopefully one day you'll figure out you're not as smart as you think you are...a wise man understands he always has alot to learn

[@5p674]

Beautiful photography!

[@dbcooper692]

I just love this video I have always found this part of America and it's history so interesting

[@blackhavenranch7293]

I’m from Chicago and bought land in some land in Dora, Missouri shortly after this was posted. I’ve watched this at least 50 times in the last 3 years...... Mr. Brown and those old timers remind me of my grandfather and the stories he tells about sharecropping as a young man in Mississippi. Much respect to the elders and the way they lived.

[@locustgrove7212]

Please go back home yankee

[@christopherfreeman1340]

Did your grandpappy play dem good ol' Delta blues Like Muddy waters and Howlin Wolf. I love black folks country music called the blues. The old ones and not the stuff today.

[@blackhavenranch7293]

@@christopherfreeman1340 never heard anything about him playing blues, because he’s a preacher….. but he did have a gospel quartet, which isn’t too far from that delta blues sound.

[@locustgrove7212]

You yanks from chicago stop coming down to arkansas and missouri

[@blackhavenranch7293]

⁠@@locustgrove7212I was here before the the Plandemic wave of city folks and Californians. 😅

[@noelconroy3647]

That,s what you call good men fabulous video thanks for sharing thumbs yup :-)

[@faithdunn252]

Love the Huzzah, as a north Crawford county man... Still visit Scotia and the Huzzah when all the floaters aren't ruining the river!

[@alexanderlight1540]

You’re right about the city folks ruining it, they have no respect for what we have.

[@84jamesp]

Alexander Light it’s similar here in NC with the cape fear river. Trash everywhere

[@glenmorse9533]

This is the kind of video that I love to see. We need to know this old way, because our new way will fail us, and by knowing this way will save us!!!

[@cwb0110]

I love this man’s spirit! I wanna live and die this way

[@onazram1]

you can have it buzz..

[@andreakellom5556]

Diana you are fortunate to have such great story tellers in the family, my folks were so busy working our place (small family farm) there wasn't much time to tell stories !! When the work was done and the meal was eaten you can guess where everyone ended up! Us kid's (10) helped where we were needed and each of us according to our age and size helped out somewhere. Of course the teenager's were always trying to escape to be with friends or get into some kind of mischief!!!! Thank you 😊❤️😊

[@josephthistle7026]

Good video people are genuine about life

[@ajhorstmann]

I have this song on a Brewer & Shipley album. Always one of my favorites. Did not know this documentary existed! I wish there was a

[@tomshipley4903]

Glad you like it. I wrote the song while I was shooting the video. It was a real and rewarding experience and I'm so glad people like it

[@sivispacemparabellum4873]

Tom Shipley what year was this video shot?

[@alexanderlight1540]

Tom Shipley when was this video taken

[@jenniferbaumgarden9293]

Thank you so much for posting this. Beautiful music, beautiful people.

[@Zarealy]

Thank you for these videos. Would you please post more!?!

[@shanekasper4587]

What a group of legends! So glad someone captured this on video!

[@RichardHSears]

Really a good video Although I don’t live there now, was born and raised in the Ozark hills and have always been proud of it! Believe it’s great that video’s like this are being made as the old timers have a lot of knowledge to pass along if folks would just “listen” to them instead of casting them aside.

[@garyteague4480]

I love This part of Missouri, I live in the next County west of Crawford County

[@nancysteele1125]

My grandpa Harrison Friend, my uncle Efton and Aunt Juanita raised 11 kids in Ozark County MO, my grandpa fathered 22 kids, 3 died at birth.

[@jeffreyflynn5746]

My grandfather was from rueter and longrun out there in Ozark County. His name was ernest scott

[@alexanderlight1540]

Jeffrey Scott I know that name I can’t remember from where but I do know that name

[@pamdarsow9721]

Really enjoyed this

[@scottsthoughtschannel9538]

Great Channel!!!!! I love learning more about history!!!! I think that this is great!!

[@theheineyfamily]

My family lived around Scotia from way back. My family line includes the names Brown, Moutray, Harman, Mallow, etc. A lot of my family lived up the hill by Liberty. I absolutely love this movie and am glad I watched it yet again today.

[@denniscook9032]

My parents grew up along Centerpoint Road and Moutray Road. I miss visiting this area. It is such a beautiful area of the Country.

[@stevenskaggs201]

I miss Ralph, he was like a grandfather to me

[@ChrisBrown-ww8gu]

He is my grampa

[@cobycuzzocrea9142]

Alot of Family I've never met are From the ozarks& part of the 1st Settlers,to The Ozarks

[@alexanderlight1540]

That’s amazing

[@tomgrantham9992]

What a fine man. He has the best philosophy of life . He is a very interesting person. He is smart, I industrious, and a clever man. ♥️♥️♥️ You got love this man.🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@sherripoplawski115]

I love living out by my self. Just God and Families

[@84jamesp]

Big Bill O'Reilly if you have a problem join AA

[@tommyc9659]

God bless u sir im the same no crowds kinda man

[@N3VIUS]

My grandfather was cut from the same cloth but in Pennsylvania. He hunted and fished for jis food and if he didnt catch it and kill it himself he wouldnt eat it. The locals called him "the turtle man" because he would always catch the local kids turtles and give them fishing tips and show the kids what plants to eat and what plants not to eat.

[@dopefiendlarz133]

Snappers out of these clean Ozark rivers are delicious, hell just about everything out of these rivers are really good eating. Buffalo Carp are probably my favorite

[@jeremystanley1694]

Man this was pretty good

[@randomvintagefilm273]

I sure hope he has loved ones close who can help him when he can't help himself!

[@alexanderlight1540]

He passed away but his daughter rose brown runs the company still and she is loved by many especially my family

[@tomgrantham9992]

Yes, the present is all that we have. So, enjoy today and be thankful. Life is simple. Don't want too much. Just be yourself.

[@raysova7666]

The Ozarks is a place one can live as people did in 'times forgotten'. I prefer rural life. I used to have a place in Tx. gulf coast where I had a hand pitcher pump well. That's all I miss. I left because of the hurricanes. I would like a 4 season place. I like the idea that some areas have no building codes. The 2nd Amendment is enforced by Missourri law. I look forward to a visit n, possibly purchase raw land. U fortunate people !

[@Captain_Leadbottom]

Hope you made it

[@raysova7666]

@@Captain_Leadbottom,in July I closed on some property on the Missouri/Arkansas border. Raw land n wooded. Off Grid the way I want it. Wildlife n berries on it. Thanx for your concern. A lady in South East Arkansas stopped in the parking lot were I was to go buy coffee. She asked what I was doing in Arkansas. I told her(going to buy land). She replied "God Bless You". I got my blessing neighbor !

[@raysova7666]

@@Captain_Leadbottom ,correction not South East but South West Arkansas.

[@Blue4uNowicka]

Just noticed who produced this. No wonder the music is so GOOD and the love for the area comes through.

[@robertbennett5192]

Debbie Henning I remember Brewer and Shipley from the late 60’s & 70’s. And PBS has been outstanding in this long life. This must’ve been produced a while back.

[@Johndoe-co3pw]

Who gives this video a thumbs down? I don’t get it. Great videos!

[@the_birthday_skeleton]

16:29 i would sleep so soundly too in that house, next to the river. wow ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ

[@eleanorwatson1]

Amazing

[@Mom_sBasement]

"I like to be crazy". I like this guy.

[@ChrisBrown-ww8gu]

Tree house Brown is my grampa

[@Ms.Jinxie]

Then we're cousins... my paternal grandmother is his first cousin, Laverna Brown.

[@tinabrown1765]

My favorite swimming hole ❤

[@justinrad5073]

Now these are what you call Real Men.

[@2beers1paddle71]

Does anybody know where the old treehouse is? I’m just curious if maybe it’s still standing or maybe if it’s been preserved? I’d love to see it if anyone knows!

[@josephbrooks6251]

🙋🏻‍♂️Brilliant 🙏🏻🙂🙂

[@oldman9164]

Every thing we are we owe to this . All of america started just like this . Its what made us different from the rest of this god forsaken planet .

[@OffWidthCrack]

Shows him using a cellular type phone at the end

[@josephshaneferguson6561]

peace to you oletimer godspeed,treehouse brown

[@robertdouglas7101]

nice

[@b.abrackus6403]

I wonder what year this was filmed? Ralph Brown died in 1990 age 72.....

[@arkybaldknobber8062]

My first trip on the Huzzah, he pointed a shot gun at me for stopping on his side of the creek

[@markmiller4503]

🤣😂

[@shyamlynn243]

I wonder what year this was filmed...My guess is mid 80's That man speaking at 25:08 is sharing some good words of wisdom if you ask me. Sure did enjoy watching this video as i appreciate the old time ways.

[@markmiller4503]

I thought 1970s he say in the beginning grew up during the depression. Than says they would have to be here 30 or 40 years

[@markmiller4503]

15:35 that is probably filmed in the 1960s or before.

[@markmiller4503]

It was published in 1989

[@raysova7666]

After 1983 Ford trucks didn't have the triangular window. That truck appeared to b early 1980s.

[@Daber10ify]

I wonder if they had ticks and snakes you never hear about that and Missouri is loaded with them

[@84jamesp]

The body adapts to its environment

[@royramey5659]

What did he mean take down to the Pacific ? Did he pass away?

[@shelleyrambleson9198]

Taking a raft of ties down the creek and rivers to Pacific, MO to be sold to the railroads for railroad ties. They used to be hand-hewn with an axe - now railroad ties are run through machinery and not cut down one axe swing at a time. In the past, if you had a marketable product, whether it was sorghum molasses, beaver pelts, fox furs, rail ties or whatever, you had to at least take it to town or down the river or somewhere to sell it.

[@alexanderlight1540]

Yes he passed away

[@FishOnIsMyHandle]

Ouch. He had a nasty hernia @11:11

[@joshualawson7604]

What year was this filmed?

[@markmiller4503]

I'm not sure some of the clips are from the early 1920s but, it was published in 1989. I'm not sure if that was the first release.

[@billsmith8238]

A person can be whatever nowadays and they say that's OK but if you decided you want to just be off by yourself they gonna mess with you

[@jnmwtkns]

The thumbnail looks like OLD MAN FROM SANFORD& SONS?

[@spiritfan1969]

❤❤❤

[@richardalvis4695]

Bullshit on that opening parasite advertisement.

[@michaelteel5902]

Ah, the whiporwhill!!!.....

[@j.l8531]

Remember falling asleep to that sweet song, windows open and fan on

[@Ms.Jinxie]

and that Bob White. Don't hear them much anymore...

[@sissyrayself7508]

Wooperrwhil a callin in the lightt of the moon..what he a chirpin? That' s easy to hear.. Whooperwhil a chirpin and sasafrass tea. "You a lookin at me and me a lookin' at you."

[@crawwwfishh3284]

Then a bunch of outsiders move in and it’s never the same.

[@clydekennard9911]

Back THEN, $1,000 wasn't backed by empty promises and pointless THREATS!

[@takayama1638]

Ticks, red bugs. Them old boys gonna be ate up. Reckon they know how to keep nasty devils off.

[@alexanderlight1540]

That we do

[@84jamesp]

Your body adapts to its environment.

[@aloysiusdevanderabercrombi470]

@@84jamesp You get ticks and chiggers no matter how long you live there.

[@foxf6]

How life should be

[@reccoschick1015]

ANOTHER

[@ytubepuppy]

My daughter and her family lives in the Ozarks but works in the city. Lots of float trip rivers and beautiful scenery. Sad part is that a major source of income in "the off season" in the summer tourist centers is meth. You have people who couldn't pass the most basic high school chemistry class cooking up stuff that can kill you. And people buy it.

[@crawwwfishh3284]

And outsiders brought it

[@Hawthorn-nz]

You can hear the mating call of a sasquatch at exactly 10.43. Old Ralph never new how close he came to being impregnated by one of those damn things!

[@keithcagle8950]

Poooo! that stunk!

[@Ms.Jinxie]

HAAA!

[@georgewaters7965]

All you had to say was Crawford County and all I thought was Pre Maddona City Slicker.

[@shauncummings2361]

Wtf are taiters?

[@karinwest919]

taiters are potatoes

[@Kim-eh2ov]

Spelled taters, not taiters

[@cynthiahamilton3232]

Really enjoyed this.