Arkansas : A Narrative History

by Whayne, Jeannie M.; Deblack, Thomas A.; Sabo, George; Arnold, Morris S.; Gatewood, Willard B.

• ISBN13: 9781557287243
• ISBN10: 1557287244
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Arkansas Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Willard B. Gatewood
Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
Native American Prehistory	1	(19)
George Sabo III
Spanish and French Explorations in the Mississippi Valley	20	(13)
George Sabo III
New Traditions for a New World: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Native Americans in Arkansas	33	(13)
George Sabo III
Indians and Immigrants in the Arkansas Colonial Era	46	(29)
Morris S. Arnold
The Turbulent Path to Statehood: Arkansas Territory, 1803-1836	75	(34)
Jeannie M. Whayne
``The Rights and Rank to Which We Are Entitled'': Arkansas in the Early Statehood Period	109	(26)
Thomas A. DeBlack
Prosperity and Peril: Arkansas in the Late Antebellum Period	135	(31)
Thomas A. DeBlack
``Between the Hawk & Buzzard'': The Civil War in Arkansas	166	(39)
Thomas A. DeBlack
``A Harnessed Revolution'': Reconstruction in Arkansas	205	(35)
Thomas A. DeBlack
Prosperity Eluded: Era of Transition, 1880-1900	240	(32)
Jeannie M. Whayne
Reasonable Progress: Limits of Progressive Reform	272	(31)
Jeannie M. Whayne
Darker Forces on the Horizon: Natural Disasters and Great Depression	303	(33)
Jeannie M. Whayne
Turmoil and Change: Toward a New Arkansas	336	(36)
Jeannie M. Whayne
Dramatic Departures: Political, Demographic, and Economic Realignment	372	(29)
Jeannie M. Whayne
Suggested Readings	401	(16)
Contributors	417	(2)
Index	419