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. "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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- 14. "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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