Unpaginated. Illustrations by "Granny Chicken" [Ruth Heller]. 11x8¾, pictorial boards, dust jacket.

A pre-publication mock-up of a work that apparently never went to press. Dee Brown, best known for his 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee', gives a retelling of the classic 12 days of Christmas but with the gifts reflective of the Ozark region: "Twelve Holly Trees, Eleven Maids A-Waiting, Ten Mules A-Mewling, Nine Fiddlers Fiddling, Eight Dancers Dancing, Seven Turkeys Gobbling, Six Coon Dogs Running, Five Ra-Zar-Backs, Four Squirrel Pies, Three Quilting Bees, Two Mocking Birds, and a Rooster in a Pine Tree." Mock-up includes the unbound text and illustrations pages comprising a mix of color reproductions of the intended illustrations or ink sketches, the text in some locations is applied to the sheets and in others a part of the reproduction, the boards and dust jacket, also mock ups, are constructed of color reproductions. Dee Brown has signed the front flyleaf, dated 1997. A unique item.