Table of Contents
Original Accounts of de Soto’s Journey through Arkansas and of Marquette’s Entertainment by Arkansas Indians—Part II A Gentleman of Elvas 1
Living in a Graveyard: Native Americans in Colonial Arkansas Willard H. Rollins 9
Marquette Entertained by the Arkansea Indians Pere Marquette and Sieur Joliet 31
The Calumet and the Cross: Religious Encounters in the Lower Mississippi Valley Joseph Patrick Key 35
The Expedition of William Dunbar and George Hunter along the Ouachita River, 1804–1805 Trey Berry 55
The Forgotten Expedition, 1804–1805: The Louisiana Purchase Journals of Dunbar and Hunter Dunbar and Hunter 75
Shawnee Convergence: Immigrant Indians in the Ozarks George E. Lankford 89
The Slave Family in Arkansas Carl H. Moneyhon 117
Peter Caulder: A Free Black Soldier and Pioneer in Antebellum Arkansas Billy D. Higgins 139
The Arkansas Slave Code 1837 Arkansas Slave Code 161 Table of Contents iv
Excerpt from The Arkansas Traveler Colonel Sandford Faulkner 171
Arkansas at Midcentury Thomas A. DeBlack 173
Ordinance of Secession Arkansas Governor Henry Rector 201
Governor Rector’s Support for Succession Governor Henry Rector 203
Inaugural Address of Harris Flanagin November 15, 1862 Governor Harris Flanagin 207
A Semi-Savage State: The Image of Arkansas in the Civil War William L. Shea 211
Inaugural Address of Isaac Murphy April 18, 1864 Governor Isaac Murphy 233
Inaugural Address of Powell Clayton July 3, 1868 Governor Powell Clayton 239
“Good Healthy Square, Honest Killing” : The Militia War, 1868–1869 Thomas A. DeBlack 251
Plantation Life in Arkansas Octave Thanet (Alice French) 279
“The Abundant Life in a Log Cabin” from Life in the Leatherwoods John Quincy Wolf 307 Table of Contents v
On a Slow Train through Arkansaw Thomas W. Jackson 329
The Wild Ass of the Ozarks: Jeff Davis and the Social Bases of Southern Politics Raymond Arsenault 335
Theodore Roosevelt and Arkansas, 1901–1912 Willard B. Gatewood, Jr. 339
Total Eclipse: The Destruction of the African American Community of Harrison, Arkansas, 1905 and 1909 Jacqueline Froelich and David Zimmerman 361
We Have Just Begun: Black Organizing and White Response in the Arkansas Delta, 1919 Kieran Taylor 393
Selected Works of John Gould Fletcher John Gould Fletcher 415
Leaving the Land of Opportunity: Arkansas and the Great Migration Donald Holley 431
Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway Leo J. Mahoney 451
Joseph Taylor Robinson Cecil Edward Weller, Jr. 455
An Autobiography Alyce Okamura 459
Declaration of Constitutional Principles (a.k.a. The Southern Manifesto) U.S. Congress 461 Table of Contents vi
“Black Law Students” from One Life in the Law Robert A. Leflar 465
The Long Shadow of Little Rock Daisy Bates 471
The Crisis that Governor Faubus Created Harry Ashmore 475
Little Rock Central High, 1957–1958 Larry Taylor 477
The Fall of a Southern Moderate: Congressman Brooks Hays and the Election of 1958 John Kyle Day 491
The Big Three of Late Twentieth-Century Arkansas Politics: Dale Bumpers, Bill Clinton, and David Pryor Diane D. Blair 521
The Legacy of Lost Valley Neil Compton, M.D. 545
Justice Douglas on the Buffalo Neil Compton, M.D. 585
First Inaugural Address of Dale Leon Bumpers January 12, 1971 Governor Dale Leon Bumpers 589
Selected Poems of Red Hawk Red Hawk 597
Samuel Moore Walton Kim I. Martin 603