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Bibliography and Useful Books

American Indian Center of Arkansas. 1991. Traditional Indian Recipes. The American Center of Arkansas, phone: 501-666-9032. This is a book complied by members of the American Indian Center of Arkansas and can be purchased for $5.00 by calling the center at the phone number above. It has some good recipes and some odd ones including: how to cook bobcat.

Angier, Bradford. 1972. Feasting Free on Wild Edibles. Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, PA. No ISBN. This book contains detailed descriptions and drawings for way to avoid picking poisonous wild plants and eliminates borderline plants that might cause confusion.

Brill, Steve. 1994. Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places. William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York, NY. ISBN 0-688-11425-3. This book show readers how to find and prepare more than five hundred plants for nutrition and better health, including mullein, stinging nettle, cattail, and wild apricots.

Brown, Joan. 1988. To Salt or Not to Salt. Joan Brown. No ISBN. This little book contains an unusual group of recipes from the collection of Joan Brown. Some are nostalgic and reflect the influence of her native American Indian culture and some are "plain good food."

Courtenay, Booth and James H. Zimmerman. Wildflowers and Weeds. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, NY. No ISBN. This workbook is designed to help you see the wildflowers, those surviving without, or in spite of, man's hand.

Denison, Edgar. 1978. Missouri Wildflowers. Missouri Department of Conservation, Jefferson City, MO. No ISBN. This books lists 2,369 flowering plants in Missouri and includes the grasses, sedges, bur-weeds, pond-weeds, and duck-weeds which have specialized flowering parts that are flowers to the botanist but hardly recognizable as such to the amateur

Duke, James A. 1992. Handbook of Edible Weeds. CRC Press Inc., Ann Arbor. ISBN 0-8493-4225-2. Good.

Elias, Thomas S. and Peter Dykeman. 1990. Edible Wild Plants: a North American Field Guide. Sterling Pub. Co. Inc.,: New York. ISBN 0-8069-7488-5. This is a good book with color photos and recipes.

Gibbons, Euell. 1962. Stalking the Wild Asparagus. David McKay Company, Inc. New York, NY. ISBN 62-13703. This book is probably the best known field guide and cookbook on wild foods and includes a great deal of information. He also wrote several other books on wild foods but this is the best known.

Hall, Alan. 1973. The Wild Food Trailguide. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. New York, Chicago, San Francisco. ISBN 0-03-007701-X. This book contains the most common edible plants of North America.

Hunter, Carl G. 1984. Wildflowers of Arkansas. The Ozark Society Foundation, Little Rock, AR. ISBN 0-917659-00-7. This is a good field guide because of the numerous color plates that make identification somewhat easier. It covers wildflowers in general and does not present information on edible plants, however.

Hunter, Carl G. 1989. Trees, Shrubs, and Vines of Arkansas. The Ozark Society Foundation, Little Rock, AR. ISBN 0-912456-10-8. Same as above: This is a good field guide because of the numerous color plates that make identification somewhat easier and does not deal specifically with edible plants.

Kindscher, Kelly. 1987. Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie: an ethnobotanical guide. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS: ISBN # 0-7006-0325-5. This is an excellent guide and contains Native American terms for some of the plants. It does not have any recipes per se but does tell how tribes used the various plants.

Knutsen, Karl. 1975. Wild Plants You Can Eat. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY. ISBN 0-385-09724-7. This book contains 24 wild plants and where to find each plant, the identifying characteristics of the plant, the edible parts, when to harvest, how to harvest and how to prepare and store.

Kowalchik, Claire and William H. Hylton. 1998. Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs. Rodale Press, Inc. Emmaus, PA. ISBN 0-87857-699-1 (hardcover). ISBN 0-87596-964-X (paperback). This book is a virtually endless source of useful information and herbal know-how. It's presented in an A-to-Z format, supplemented with easy-to-use charts and lists, beautifully illustrated with drawings and color photograph.

Krochmal, Arnold, Russell S. Walters, Richard M. Doughty. 1969. A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia. Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, Upper Darby, PA. This guide includes descriptions of 126 medicinal plants of the Appalachian region and a glossary of the terms used, a reference list of publications, and a listing of additional source material.

McDonough, Nancy. 1975. Garden Sass: A Catalog of Arkansas Folkways. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, New York, NY. ISBN 698-10640-7 (cloth edition). ISBN 698-10644-x (paperback edition). This book is the story of the Arkansas country people and their way of life.

Moore, Dwight Munson PHD. 1989. Trees of Arkansas. Arkansas Forestry Commission, Little Rock, AR. No ISBN. This book contains information about different trees and plants in Arkansas.

Mooney, James. 1992. History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees. Bright Mountain Books, Asheville, NC. ISBN 0-914875-19-1. This book contains the full texts of Myths of the Cherokee and The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees by James Mooney as originally published by the Bureau of the American Ethnology in 1900 and 1891, respectively.

Peterson, Lee. 1978. A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. ISBN 0-395-20445-3. This is an older version but more recent ones exist.

Phillips, Jan. 1979. Wild Edibles of Missouri. The Missouri Department of Conservation, Jefferson City, MO. No ISBN number. This is a pretty good book but the illustrations are not really helpful in plant identification. She does include some good recipes.

Tatum, Billy Joe. 1976. Wildfoods Field Guide and Cookbook. Workman Publishing Company, Inc. New York, NY. ISBN0-911104-77-1. This is an excellent cookbook and is written by a woman living in Arkansas. The books contains a wide variety of recipes and nice drawings.

Tull, Delena.1987. A Practical Guide to Edible and Useful Plants: including recipes, harmful plants, natural dyes, and textile fibers. Delena Tull. Texas Monthly Press, Inc. Austin, TX ISBN 0-87719-022-4. This book includes everything from edible to toxic plants and natural dyes. Although based in Texas, many species are here in Arkansas.