Southwest Arkansas -- History Articles
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- 1. "Some
Old French Place Names in the State of Arkansas" by
John C.
- Branner in Arkansas Historical Quarterly
19 (Autumn 1960):191-206.
- Provides origins of names, originally in
French, of rivers,
- towns, and other places, found especially
in south Arkansas.
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- 2. "William
Dunbar, History Maker," by Mary D. Hudgins in Arkansas
Historical Quarterly
- 1 (March-December 1942): 331-41.
- A brief review of Dunbar's trip of exploration,
sponsored by President Thomas Jefferson, in 1804 along the Ouachita
River to what is present day Hot Springs, Arkansas.
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- 3. "A
Dragoon in Arkansas Territory in 1833," by David Walker
Lupton and Dorothy Ruland Lupton in Arkansas Historical Quarterly
45 (Autumn): 217-27.
- The diary of a U.S. Army Lieutenant traveling
through Arkansas.
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- 4. "A
Little of What Arkansas Was Like a Hundred Years Ago,"
by Dallas T. Herndon in Arkansas Historical Quarterly
3 (Summer 1944): 97-124.
- Summarizes, with few quotations, the observations
of George W. Featherstonhaugh who traveled through Arkansas Territory
in 1834. Herndon is critical of the negative comments that Featherstonhaugh
made about Arkansas.
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- 5. "
'Low, Degrading Scoundrels': George W. Featherstonhaugh's Contribution
to the Bad Name of Arkansas," by Robert B. Cochran in
Arkansas Historical Quarterly 48 (Spring 1989): 3-16.
- Relates the observations, with extensive
quotations, of this visitor to Arkansas Territory in 1834 who
was severly critical of its inhabitants and their customs and
manners, presenting a negative image of the area that would continue
through the 20th century.
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- 6. "Journey
Through Southwest Arkansas, 1858," by Germaine M. Reed
in Arkansas Historical Quarterly 30 (Summer 1971): 161-69.
- The diary of David F. Boyd, who traveled
from Homer, Louisiana, through Columbia, Hemstead, and Sevier
counties, to Indian Territory.
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- 7. "Nineteenth-Century
Rural Self-Sufficiency: A Planter's and Housewife's 'Do-It-Yourself'
Encyclopedia," by Jo Ann Carrigan in Arkansas Historical
Quarterly 21 (Summer 1962): 132-45.
- Excerpts from a handwritten composition book
brought to Arkansas in the 1850s to instruct a young planter
and wife on medical remedies, cooking recipes, and other practical
information needed by people living in rural isolation.
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- 7. Camden
Expedition
- Eleven articles from the Arkansas Historical
Quarterly deal with the Union force's advance into southern
Arkansas in 1864 during the Civil War, its occupation of Camden,
and its retreat back to Little Rock.
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- 8. "Disloyalty
and Class Consciousness in Southwestern Arkansas, 1862-1865,"
by Carl Moneyhon in Arkansas Historical Quarterly 52 (Autumn):
223-43.
- Analyzes opposition to the Confederacy and
its policies, especially conscription, by poorer Arkansans in
southwest Arkansas which resulted in the suspension of the writ
of habaes corpus by President Jefferson Davis and the imposition
of martial law in early 1863 in order to forcibly suppress disloyalty.
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- 9 ."The American
Missionary Association and the Freedmen's Bureau in
- Arkansas, 1866-1868"
by Larry Wesley Pearce in Arkansas Historical
- Quarterly 30
(Spring-Winter 1971):242-59.
- Examines the work of this Northern education
aid society which sent
- teachers to Arkansas to open schools for
newly-freed African Americans.
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- 10. "'A
Dear Little Job:' Second Lieutenant Hiram F. Willis, Freedman's
Bureau Agent in Southwestern Arkansas, 1866-1868," by
William L. Richter in Arkansas Historical Quarterly 50
(Summer 1994): 158-200.
- A thorough account of the work of Willis's
effort to assist newly freed African Americans after the Civil
War.
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- 11. "Major
Josiah H. Demby's History of Catterson's Militia," edited
by Ted R. Worley in Arkansas Historical Quarterly 16(Summer
1957): 203-11.
- An account by a leader of Catterson's force
that suppressed the Ku Klux Klan in southwest Arkansas in 1868,
partly in response to the murder of Freedman Bureau agent Hiram
F. Willis. (See article above.)
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- 12. "Clayton's
Militia in Sevier and Howard Counties," by Virginia
Buxton in Arkansas Historical Quarterly 20 (Winter 1961):
344-50.
- Two letters published in 1890 from local
citizens, opponents of Reconstruction and Governor Clayton Powell's
declaration of martial law in 1868 in southwest Arkansas.
- (See article above.)
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- 13. "Life
of an Arkansas Logger in 1901," edited by Walter L.
Brown in Arkansas Historical
- Quarterly 21
(Spring 1962): 44-74.
- The daily journal of Ormond H. Twiford who
worker as a logger in the woods in Polk county in the early 20th
century.
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- 14. "The
Arkansas Maneuvers, 1941," by B. Franklin Cooling III
in Arkansas Historical Quarterly 26 (Summer 1967): 103-22.
- Recounts the "war games" of the
VII Army Corps involving more than 100,000 troops who fought
over the cities and countryside of the region during late August
1941.
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- 15. "The
Red Imported Fire Ant: Mythology and Public Policy, 1957-1992,"
by Elizabeth F. Shores in Arkansas Historical Quarterly
53 (Autumn 1994): 320-39.
- Analyzes the failed, and probably mistaken,
policies of attempting to eradicate the red imported fire ant
in south Arkansas.
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