Welcome to BeautifulOzarks.com, Internet home of Lens & Pen Press, independent publishing firm focused on the human and natural history of the Ozarks and midwest region. Through finely printed art books, photographs and the moving image we document, explain and illustrate one of America's least known but most surprising and distinct geographic and cultural regions.

NEW BOOK has arrived! On the Mission in Missouri & Fifty Years Ago: A Memoir arrived this week from the printer. Together in one volume for the first time, John Joseph Hogan's classic memoirs are the companion volume to the award winning Mystery of the Irish Wilderness. Now available from Lens & Pen Press; coming soon to a bookstore or Web site near you!