Arkansas, Arkansas

by Guilds, John Caldwell

• ISBN13: 9781557285232
• ISBN10: 1557285233
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Arkansas Pr

Summary

From the expeditions of de Soto in the sixteenth century to the celebrated work of such contemporary writers as Maya Angelou, Ellen Gilchrist, and Miller Williams, Arkansas has enjoyed a rich history of letters. These two volumes gather the best work from Arkansas's rich literary history celebrating the variety of its voices and the national treasure those voices have become.

Table of Contents

General Introduction	xix
PART I In the Beginning: Exploration and Colonization, 1541--1803	1	(136)
Hernando De Soto (ca. 1500--1542)	3	(28)
How the Governor Went from Alimamu to Quizquiz and Thence to a Large River.	4	(3)
How the Governor Went from Aquixo to Casqui and Thence to Pac[a]Ha; And How That Land Differs from That Behind.	7	(3)
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.	10	(3)
How the Governor Went from Pacaha to Quiguate and to Coligoa and Arrived at Cayas.	13	(3)
How the Governor Went to See the Province of Tulla and What Befell Him There.	16	(3)
How the Governor Went from Tulla to Autiamque, Where He Wintered.	19	(2)
How the Governor Went from Autiamque to Nilco and Thence to Guachoya.	21	(3)
Of the Message Sent by the Governor to Quigaltam and of the Answer Given by the Latter; And of What Happened during This Time.	24	(4)
How the Adelantado, Don Hernando de Soto, Died and How Luis Moscoso de Alvarado Was Chosen Governor.	28	(3)
Lily Peter (1891--1991)	31	(19)
Book II: Present Tense: Bronze Age	31	(3)
Book VI: The Great Riding	34	(8)
Book XV: The Great River	42	(3)
Book XVIII: The Fever	45	(5)
John Gould Fletcher (1886--1950)	50	(67)
The Story of Arkansas	50	(42)
A Look around the Land	92	(4)
A Spaniard Comes to See the Land and Does Not Depart	96	(12)
The French Make a Map and Leave Behind Some Names	108	(9)
William Bartram (1739--1823)	117	(2)
Bob Lancaster (1945--)	119	(6)
Paddling the Big River of a New World: La Salle's Dream Consumes Him	119	(6)
Morris S. Arnold (1941--)	125	(12)
The Sites of Arkansas Colonial Settlement	125	(12)
PART II Arkansas Backwoods: Territory, Statehood, and Beyond the Civil War, 1804--1884	137	(202)
John James Audubon (1783--1851)	140	(7)
Washington Irving (1783--1859)	147	(7)
XI: Breaking up of the Encampment.---Picturesque March.--- Game.---Camp Scenes.---Triumph of a Young Hunter.--- III Success of Old Hunters.---Foul Murder of a Polecat.	147	(4)
XII: The Crossing of the Arkansas.	151	(3)
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793--1864)	154	(7)
George W. Featherstonhaugh (1780--1866)	161	(5)
Civil Life in Little Rock	161	(5)
George Catlin (1796--1872)	166	(17)
Letter No. 37---Fort Gibson, Arkansas Territory	166	(4)
Letter No. 38---Fort Gibson, Arkansas	170	(5)
Letter No. 45---Fort Gibson, Arkansas	175	(8)
John Rollin Ridge (1827--1867)	183	(12)
The Arkansaw Root Doctor	183	(5)
A Cherokee Love Song	188	(1)
To Lizzie	189	(1)
To a Mocking Bird Singing in a Tree	190	(2)
The Still Small Voice	192	(1)
The Stolen Whit Girl	193	(2)
Friedrich Gerstacker (1816--1872)	195	(35)
Courtroom Scenes in Arkansas	195	(15)
John Wells	210	(20)
Thomas Bangs Thorpe (1815--1878)	230	(17)
The Big Bear of Arkansas	230	(11)
A Piano in Arkansas	241	(6)
S. Charles Bolton (1943--)	247	(8)
from Settlers, Real and Mythic	247	(8)
Paul I. Wellman (1898--1966)	255	(10)
The Making of the Bowie Knife	255	(10)
David Rattlehead [Marcus Lafayette Byrn] (1826--1903)	265	(10)
Preface to the Life and Adventures (1851 Edition)	265	(1)
A Lumping Business	266	(9)
Pete Whetstone [Charles Fenton Mercer Noland] (1808--1858)	275	(4)
[Devil's Fork]	275	(2)
Pete Whetstone's Bear Hunt	277	(2)
The Arkansas Traveler	279	(16)
The Arkansas Traveler	279	(4)
Albert Pike (1809--1891)
Every Year	283	(3)
To the Mocking-Bird	286	(1)
Sunset in Arkansas	287	(2)
Night on the Arkansa	289	(1)
The Fine Arkansas Gentleman	290	(5)
John Gould Fletcher (1886--1950)	295	(7)
The Storm Breaks	295	(7)
Pat Carr (1932--)	302	(12)
Dairy of a Union Soldier	302	(12)
Harriet Bailey Bullock Daniel (1849--1934)	314	(15)
John Quincy Wolf (1864--1949)	329	(10)
PART III Toward the Making of a Literary State, 1885--1969	339
Charles J. Finger (1869--1941)	341
A Joyful River	341
Utopia in Arkansas	342
Wayman Hongue (1870--1965)	348
Foreword	348
Our Home	348
Murray Sheehan (c. 1885--?)	353
Thames Williamson (1894--?)	369
Octave Thanet [Alice French] (1850--1934)	376
Plantation Life in Arkansas	376
Opie Read (1852--1939)	400
Ruth Mcenery Stuart (1852--1917)	420
The Woman's Exchange of Simpkinsville	420
Thyra Samter Winslow (1885--1961)	443
The Other Woman	443
John Gould Fletcher (1886--1950)	447
In Mount Holly	447
Arkansas Red Haw	450
The Farewell	452
Dogwood	454
The Fireflies	454
Thunderstorm in the Ozarks	455
Hillbilly Philosophy	457
The Ozarks	458
Grandfather's Grave	460
The Flood Symphony	462
Journey Day	465
The Truth of the Matter	470
The Fine Arkansas Gentlemen and Their Day	470
Charlie May Simon (1897--1977)	487
Raided By Razorbacks	487
Skinny as a Hog	493
Vance Randolph (1892--1980)	505
Preface	505
Pissing in the Snow	506
Old Age in Arkansas	507
Senator Johnson's Great Speech	508
The Pea Ridge Battle	510
The Arkansas Boys	513
Eureka!	513
In Arkansas	514
Benton County, Arkansas	515
State of Arkansas	516
Blow the Candle Out	517
Arkansas Is a Good Old Saw	518
The Gals in Arkansas	518
Introduction	519
Robert Cochran (1943--)	524
Pople of His Own Kind	524
Charles Morrow Wilson (1905--1977)	528
Henry Dumas (1934--1968)	538
Goodbye, Sweetwater	538
Brooks Hays (1898--1981)	551
Covered Wagons: Frontier	551
Edsel Ford (1928--1970)	567
White River Float	567
About Grandpa, Who Died Poor	568
Robert A. Leflar (1901--1997)	569
Black Law Students	569
Booker T. Jackson (1929--)	573
The Crisis of 57	573
Harry S. Ashmore (1916--1998)	575
The Battle of Little Rock	575
Daisy Bates (1914--)	579
Little Rock	579
How Long, How Long...?	581
Mary Medearis (1915--)	586
Charles Portis (1933--)	595