Table of Contents
Contents General Introduction Part I. In the Beginning: Exploration and Colonization, 1541–1803 Hernando De Soto (ca. 1500–1542) How the Governor Went from Alimamu to Quizquiz and Thence to a Large River. How the Governor Went from Aquixo to Casqui and Thence to Pac[a]Ha; And How That Land Differs from That Behind. How the Cacique of Pacaha Came in Peace, and He of Casqui Went Away and Returned to Excuse Himself; And How the Governor Made Him and the Cacique of Pacaha Friends. How the Governor Went from Pacaha to Quiguate and to Coligoa and Arrived at Cayas. How the Governor Went to See the Province of Tulla and What Befell Him There. How the Governor Went from Tulla to Autiamque, Where He Wintered. How the Governor Went from Autiamque to Nilco and Thence to Guachoya. Of the Message Sent by the Governor to Quigaltam and of the Answer Given by the Latter; And of What Happened during This Time. How the Adelantado, Don Hernando de Soto, Died and How Luis Moscoso de Alvarado Was Chosen Governor. Book II: Present Tense: Bronze Age Book VI: The Great Riding Book XV: The Great River Book XVIII: The Fever The Story of Arkansas A Look around the Land A Spaniard Comes to See the Land and Does Not Depart The French Make a Map and Leave Behind Some Names from Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida Paddling the Big River of a New World: La Salle’s Dream Consumes Him The Sites of Arkansas Colonial Settlement Part II. Arkansas Backwoods: Territory, Statehood, and Beyond the Civil War, 1804–1884 from Audubon’s America XI: Breaking up of the Encampment.—Picturesque March.—Game.—Camp Scenes.—Triumph of a Young Hunter.—Ill Success of Old Hunters.—Foul Murder of a Polecat. XII: The Crossing of the Arkansas. from Schoolcraft in the Ozarks Civil Life in Little Rock Letter No. 37—Fort Gibson, Arkansas Territory Letter No. 38—Fort Gibson, Arkansas Letter No. 45—Fort Gibson, Arkansas The Arkansaw Root Doctor A Cherokee Love Song To Lizzie To a Mocking Bird Singing in a Tree The Still Small Voice The Stolen White Girl Courtroom Scenes in Arkansas John Wells The Big Bear of Arkansas A Piano in Arkansas from Settlers, Real and Mythic The Making of the Bowie Knife Preface to the Life and Adventures (1851 Edition) Chapter I: A Lumping Business [Devil’s Fork] Pete Whetstone’s Bear Hunt from Chapter XIV: The Arkansas Traveler Every Year To the Mocking-Bird Sunset in Arkansas Night on the Arkansa The Fine Arkansas Gentleman Chapter 10: The Storm Breaks Diary of a Union Soldier from A Remembrance of Eden from Life in the Leatherwoods Part III. Toward the Making of a Literary State, 1885–1969 A Joyful River Utopia in Arkansas Chapter 1: Our Home from Half-Gods from The Woods Colt Plantation Life in Arkansas from An Arkansas Planter The Woman’s Exchange of Simpkinsville The Other Woman In Mount Holly Arkansas Red Haw The Farewell The Fireflies Thunderstorm in the Ozarks Hillbilly Philosophy The Ozarks Grandfather’s Grave The Flood Symphony Journey Day The Fine Arkansas Gentlemen and Their Day Raided by Razorbacks Skinny as a Hog from Johnswood Preface Pissing in the Snow Old Age in Arkansas Senator Johnson’s Great Speech The Pea Ridge Battle Eureka! In Arkansas Benton County, Arkansas State of Arkansas Blow the Candle Out The Gals in Arkansas Introduction People of His Own Kind from Acres of Sky Goodbye, Sweetwater Covered Wagons: Frontier White River Float About Grandpa, Who Died Poor Black Law Students The Crisis of 57 The Battle of Little Rock from The Long Shadow of Little Rock Chapter 16: How Long, How Long...? from Big Doc’s Girl from True Grit
