When asked by an academic counselor what he liked to do, Curtis Copeland said he liked to research Ozarks history, “to see where these historic events occurred, or where the old towns or settlements were. Analyzing old maps and going for hikes and finding these locations [is] like solving a mystery with documents and maps.” He went on to study Geographic Information Systems — digital mapping — but his passion for history never waned.
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Curtis Copeland grew up hearing, seeing and experiencing the history and folk lore of the Ozarks. It was, he says, instilled in him on summer drives with his paternal grandfather; expanded by his mother's subscription to The Ozarks Mountaineer, a magazine "legendary for its voluminous content of everything Ozarks"; and...
![When asked by an academic counselor what he liked to do, Curtis Copeland said he liked to research Ozarks history, “to see where these historic events occurred, or where the old towns or settlements were. Analyzing old maps and going for hikes and finding these locations [is] like solving a mystery with documents and maps.” He went on to study Geographic Information Systems — digital mapping — but his passion for history never waned.
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