Many thanks to Jim Fortune of Searcy

Many thanks to Jim Fortune, a knowledgeable advisor on this project, for his hospitality over the weekend during our discussions and day trip through his long-time haunts near the mouth of the Red River (where it enters the White River).  Highlights included filming Jim as he recounted hilarious tales of fishing and hunting with his father, tracking deer and beaver prints along the bank and into the woods, and running "Silver Bullet" aground trying to investigate a phantom sand bar. Jim knows the river as well as anyone I've met and I'm overwhelmed by his gracious assistance and willingness to educate a greenhorn.  He's even offered to follow my canoe in a "support boat" as I descend the White from Bull Shoals a few months from now.

A Walk In the Ozarks