Often thought of as a primitive backwoods peopled by rough hunters and unsavory characters, early Arkansas was actually productive and dynamic in the same manner as other American territories and stat
A Documentary History of Arkansas provides a comprehensive look at Arkansas history from the state's earliest events to the present. Here are newspaper articles, government bulletins, legislative acts
The Louisiana Purchase was supposed to be one of history's greatest land deals, doubling the size of the US and gaining it control of the Mississippi River. However, neither the French who sold it nor
