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File 1 – September 1958

Articles # 1 – 13:

1 – 09-07-58 – Scenery Striking, But Road Dangerous; Fort Smith Whoops For Overland Mail

2 – 09-08-58 – On The Overland Run From Fort Smith To Memphis

3 – 09-10-58 – British Description Of The Ancient ‘Post Of Arcansas’

4 – 09-12-58 – Albert Pike Describes The Territorial Bench And Bar

5 – 09-14-58 – Guard Duty On The Eve Of Fall Of Little Rock; And The Retreat, Which Followed Fight

6 – 09-15-58 – A Couple Of Descriptions Of Little Rock In The 1800s

7 – 09-17-58 – The ‘Old Settler’ Tells Of His Trip To 1819 Arkansas

8 – 09-19-58 – What A Cleric Wrote About The Town Of Napoleon, Arkansas

9 – 09-21-58 – Dispute Over Spanish Land Grant; Letter Traces The Villemont Claim

10 – 09-22-58 – Dramatic Episode: The Day Little Rock ‘Moved’

11 – 09-24-58 – Little Rock In The Mid-1800s As Revealed In Two Letters

12 – 09-28-58 – Visitor Describes Little Rock Homes, Meets Poet-Soldier Albert Pike

13 – 09-29-58 – The ‘Arkansas Traveler’ Visits City Of Fort Smith

File 2 – October 1958

Articles # 14 – 31:

14 – 10-01-58 – Historical Note On Two Governors – Pope, Izard

15 – 10-03-58 – A Report In 1819 On The Famous Dwight Mission

16 – 10-05-58 – From The Frontier, Clerk Describes Growth Of The City Of Fort Smith

17 – 10-06-58 – A Bishop’s Letters Tell Of Chaotic Chapter Of History

18 – 10-08-58 – 1850’s Traveler Tells Of Helena And River

19 – 10-10-58 – A Couple Of Early Notes On Historic Batesville

20 – 10-12-58 – Chance Discoveries Proved The Legends About Healing Waters At Eureka Springs

21 – 10-13-58 – More Noland Notes On The Arkansas Territory

22 – 10-15-58 – Tragic Duel Robs State Of Very Worthy Leader: Ambrose Sevier

23 – 10-17-58 – Outstanding Residents Of Arkansas Territory

24 – 10-19-58 – ‘Old Settler’ Tells Of Arkansas Post, Gazette Editor Woodruff In 1819-20

25 – 10-20-58 – More Noland Notes On Early Days In Arkansas

26 – 10-22-58 – Batesville, Home Of The ‘Constitution – Makers’

27 – 10-24-58 – A Note On Arkansas ‘Of Giant Intellects’

28 – 10-26-58 – Baptism Of 1744 Among Earliest Data; Some Notes About French Names.

29 – 10-27-58 – Some Further Notes On Arkansans Of Distinction

30 – 10-29-58 – Of A Steamboat Pioneer And Other Early Settlers

31 – 10-31-58 – First State Constitution Is Framed And Delivered

File 3 – November 1958

Articles # 32 – 48:

32 – 11-02-58 – Visitor Finds State Growing In 1887, Remarks On Public Buildings, Institutions

33 – 11-03-58 – Charles Dudley Warner Has A Watery Visit Here

34 – 11-05-58 – Eastern Writer Takes A Look At Hot Springs

35 – 11-07-58 – A Visitor To The State Is Agreeably Surprised

36 – 11-09-58 – St. Louis Railroad Made Hot Springs Adjunct Of Missouri City In 1870s

37 – 11-10-58 – Geologist From Britain Studies Magnate Cove

38 – 11-12-58 – A Look At Our State In ‘Reconstruction’ Days

39 – 11-14-58 – 4^thArkansas’ History Of Battle Of Pea Ridge

40 – 11-16-58 – Note On Territorial Legislature Of 1825 And The Clearing Of The Red River Raft

41 – 11-17-58 – Divorce No Stranger – Even In Territorial Days

42 – 11-19-58 – Tomorrow Is Birthday Of Gazette – Its 139^th

43 – 11-21-58 – More Notes On The Oldest West Of The Mississippi

44 – 11-23-58 – Nuttall Found Little To Recommend In Site For Early Town Of Cadron

45 – 11-24-58 – The Third Louisiana Winters In Arkansas

46 – 11-26-58 – A Tennessee Regiment Comes To Washington

47 – 11-28-58 – ‘Philom’ Makes A Report On The Town Of Cane Hill

48 – 11-30-58 – Albert Pike Describes The Arkansas: ‘Singularly Winding’ Changing River

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File 4 – December 1958

Articles # 49 – 66:

49 – 12-01-58 – The 33^rd Iowa And The Battle Of Prairie De Anne

50 – 12-03-58 – A View Of Our State’s 1836 General Assembly ** (Damaged)

51 – 12-05-58 – Of Frontier Fort Coffee And A Choctaw Mission

52 – 12-07-58 – On Prairie Grove Battlefield 96 Years Ago, Survivor Walked Ghostly Orchard At Night

53 – 12-08-58 – Gen. Frederick Steele And The ‘Camden Expedition’

54 – 12-10-58 – An Ancient Problem: The Territorial Roads.

55 – 12-12-58 – A Historical Record Of La Salle’s Last Voyage

56 – 12-14-58 – Company Of Young Boys Organized, Later Known As Pike’s Artillery

57 – 12-15-58 – 1866 – A Dread Cholera Epidemic At Fort Smith

58 – 12-17-58 – This Is Arkansas’ Ads Used Even In The 1800s

59 – 12-19-58 – Jenkins Ferry: A Major Battle Of Camden Move

60 – 12-21-58 – Visiting Press Finds Legislature Of 1875 Comfortably Housed, With Men Of Note

61 – 12-22-58 – Printer, Boniface Gives Picture Of State In 1830s

62 – 12-24-58 – Christmas In Arkansas: First After War Began

63 – 12-26-58 – William King Sebastian Opposed The Move Of ‘61

64 – 12-28-58 – Town Built Around Judson University, Which In 1876 Listed Its Advantages

65 – 12-29-58 – A Highly Critical Study Of Our State In The 1870s

66 – 12-31-58 – A British Traveler Visits Settlements At Maumelle

File 5 – January 1959

Articles # 67 – 83:

67 – 01-02-59 – Production Of Salt Was An Early State Industry

68 – 01-04-59 – Eyewitness Recalls Dodd Execution: Composed Youth ‘Truly Died Game’

69 – 01-05-59 – ‘Stories Of The Ozarks’ Had Interesting Episode

70 – 01-07-59 – Horticulture Professor Tells Of Life In State

71 – 01-09-59 – Pioneer Citizen Tells Of The Little Rock Of 1820

72 – 01-11-59 – From First, The Little Rock Site Favored; Old Settler Speaks Of His Fellow Pioneers

73 – 01-12-59 – A Journalistic History From Early Arkansas

74 – 01-14-59 – A Few Pioneer Notes On Banking Operations

75 – 01-16-59 – Donaghey’s Travails In Building The New Capitol

76 – 01-18-59 – Problem Of The Conway Administration: Operation Of The State Penitentiary

77 – 01-19-59 – Workmen Find Graves At Site Of State House

78 – 01-21-59 – Letters Tell Of Early History Of Little Rock

79 – 01-23-59 – Saline County Noted In Pamphlet Printed In ‘84

80 – 01-25-59 – Trains Had Reason Enough To Be Slow, Recollections Of Traveling Priest Show

81 – 01-26-59 – British Traveler Writes Of Valley Country In ‘08

82 – 01-28-59 – Harrison Times Article Tells Of Cadron Creek

83 – 01-30-59 – Fort Wayne Journalist Writes Of Early Arkansas

File 6 – February 1959

Articles # 84 – 99:

84 – 02-01-59 – Hot Springs Visitor Finds Friendly Aid, But Some Are Victims At Health Resort

85 – 02-02-59 – ’77 Broadside Describes Conway And Faulkner

86 – 02-04-59 – Bishop’s Travel Account Describes Batesville

87 – 02-06-59 – Albert Pike’s Letters Tell Of School In Pope County

88 – 02-08-59 – Geologist Hired By Eastern Investors, Came To Study Arkansas And Stayed

89 – 02-09-59 – Hunter, Trapper Found Interesting Relics Here

90 – 02-11-59 – British Sportsman Hunts Pulaski, Jefferson Game

91 – 02-13-59 – Journey From Napoleon Up To Arkansas Post

92 – 02-15-59 – Mulattoes, Free Negroes Ordered To Leave Arkansas On Eve Of The War

93 – 02-16-59 – Little Rock Experiences 1860’s Building Boom

94 – 02-18-59 – On Commencement Day At Old Cane Hill College

95 – 02-20-59 – The Steamboat ‘Eagle’ – First To Reach Little Rock

96 – 02-22-59 – Fire On Steamer Martha Washington Touched Off Lawsuits And Mystery

97 – 02-23-59 – Magazine Tells Of Trip Into Northern Arkansas

98 – 02-25-59 – On Land Booms And The Speculations Of The 1800s

99 – 02-27-59 – Report On New Madrid Claims At ‘Wheelerville’

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File 7 – March 1959

Articles # 100 – 117:

100 – 03-01-59 – First Report On The State University Discusses The Effort To Locate A Site

101 – 03-02-59 – More News Of Little Rock In Chaotic Time In 1820.

102 – 03-04-59 – His Claimants Lose And Wheeler Ends A Chronicle

103 – 03-06-59 – 1541– Hernando De Soto Crosses The Mississippi

104 – 03-08-59 – Report By First Arkansas Governor Sustained Jefferson Against Critics

105 – 03-09-59 – The Origin Of The Name Of Old L’Anguille River

106 – 03-11-59 – The Bank Of Maryland Sets Up An Agency Here.

107 – 03-13-59 – Masonic Historical Item From The Helena Of 1850

108 – 03-15-59 – Getting Mission Supplies Up Arkansas Difficult Task For Teachers In 1843

109 – 03-16-59 – Thomas Nuttall Journeys Up The Arkansas River

110 – 03-18-59 – The Strategic Position Of Fort Smith In 1820s

111 – 03-20-59 – 19^th Century Visitors Say State’s Institutions Good

112 – 03-22-59 – Sensational Story Of The Lost Child Rivals Any Account In Fiction

113 – 03-23-59 – Report On Union County Activities In The 1830s

114 – 03-25-59 – A Description Of Life In Marion County In 1860s

115 – 03-27-59 – A Note On The 1830s And Arkansas’ Silk Industry

116 – 03-29-59 – Private Banks At Little Rock Began As Adjuncts To Mercantile Business

117 – 03-30-59 – The Quapaw Line And Little Rock Of The 1800s

File 8 – April 1959

Articles # 118 – 134:

118 – 04-01-59 – Pike Paints A Picture Of An Arkansas Lawyer

119 – 04-03-59 – Dwight Mission: A View During The Period Of 1862

120 – 04-05-59 – Crittenden Home, Often In The News, Was Show Place Of Territorial Days

121 – 04-06-59 – A Visit To Hot Springs And Its Popular Midget

122 – 04-08-59 – Tornado Advanced The Democratic Cause In ‘40

123 – 04-10-59 – 1908 Observation On The Confederacy’s Currency

124 – 04-12-59 – Aide To Miss Sophia Sawyer Recalls Fayetteville Female Seminary Work

125 – 04-13-59 – Peace Comes To The State After Brooks – Baxter War

126 – 04-15-59 – A Note On Taylor Baxter, The Governor’s Brother

127 – 04-17-59 – A Report On Fort Smith’s Federal Prison In The ‘80s

128 – 04-19-59 – Early Pages Of Arkansas Intelligencer Provide Newsy Picture Of Van Buren

129 – 04-20-59 – The Agricultural Wheel: A Strong Political Power

130 – 04-22-59 – 1804 And The Exploration Of The Louisiana Territory

131 – 04-24-59 – Opie Read Describes His First State Publication

132 – 04-26-59 – Brochure Recalls Plan To Settle Colony Of British In New Village In Prairie County;

133 – 04-27-59 – Organizing The Territory: Task Falls To Crittenden

134 – 04-29-59 – On The Origins Of State’s Favorite Game – Football

File 9 – May 1959

Articles # 135-152:

135 – 05-01-59 – The Arkansas Traveler’ Plays A Practical Joke

136 – 05-03-59 – Repairs Lagged Behind Wear And Tear In Early Upkeep Of The State Capitol

137 – 05-04-59 – Arkansas Becomes State, Gets Its Supreme Court

138 – 05-06-59 – State Loses Two Of Its Important Collections

139 – 05-08-59 – Jacob Frolich: Newsman And Secretary Of State

140 – 05-10-59 – Quapaw Guard Won An Early Fame With Special Duty And Its Drills

141 – 05-11-59 – Politics Of 1827 – And The Sevier–Newton Duel

142 – 05-13-59 – Accommodations Of 1834 Recalled By Geologist

143 – 05-15-59 – Bureau Of Mines Praises State’s Building Stone

144 – 05-17-59 – Clayton’s Plan To Find Military Supplies Thwarted By Band In The ‘Hesper Affair’

145 – 05-18-59 – A Number Of Territorial Buildings Still Stand

146 – 05-20-59 – A Description Of Nebo In A Pamphlet Of 1887

147 – 05-22-59 – Clendenin Letters Make Reference To The State.

148 – 05-24-59 – Travel Difficult Up The Arkansas In 1850, As Officer Made His Way To Fort Smith

149 – 05-25-59 – Massachusetts Is Well Represented In Our City

150 – 05-27-59 – Episcopalians Withdraw From The General Church

151 – 05-29-59 – Handbook Gives Details Of Judge Parker’s Court

152 – -- Little Osage Captive’ Touching Story Of And Early Missionaries *****MISSING

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File 10 – June 1959

Articles # 153 – 169:

153 – 06-01-59 – Ouachita County’s First Courthouse Is Destroyed

154 – 06-03-59 – Village Of Little Rock Had Its Culture In 1822

155 – 06-05-59 – Yellow Fever Was Major Menace To State Pioneers

156 – 06-07-59 – Gerstaecker, the German Writer, Arrives Penniless At Little Rock

157 – 06-08-59 – U.M. Rose Tells How He Chose Arkansas As Home

158 – 06-10-59 – Supreme Court Called To Define Status Of Cadron

159 – 06-12-59 – W. B. Worthen Prepares History Of Early Banking

160 – 06-14-59 – Union Sympathizers At Fayetteville Sought To Soothe A Troubled Course

161 – 06-15-59 – A Woman’s Exchange Is Formed In Spring Of ‘87

162 – 06-17-59 – Pope County’s Famous Dwight Mission Opens

163 – 06-19-59 – Little Rock – And Its Fight Over Varied Title Claims

164 – 06-21-59 – Early Geologist Tells Of Mammoth Spring, Sees Hope For Development Of The Area

165 – 06-22-59 – Mifflin Gibbs Serves As Little Rock Police Judge

166 – 06-24-59 – Arkansas Post - Little Rock – The Hazards Of Travel

167 – 06-26-59 – Christopher C. Danley, Early Editor Of Gazette

168 – 06-28-59 – Sketches In Book About Many Members Of The Arkansas Bar In Early Years

169 – 06-29-59 – Account Of A 1797 Trip Down The Mississippi

File 11 – July 1959

Articles # 170 – 187:

170 – 07-01-59 – Sisters Of Mercy Convent Established Here In 1851

171 – 07-03-59 – Brooks – Baxter And ’74 – Rivers Were On Rampage

172 – 07-05-59 – Visitor To Mission In Cherokee Nation Is Impressed By The Staff And Indians

173 – 07-06-59 – Arkansas’s Rome: Few Roads Ever Led To It

174 – 07-08-59 – An 1843 Account Of A Trip To The Magnet Cove Area

175 – 07-10-59 – Little Rock’s First Brick Business Is Established

176 – 07-12-59 – William F. Pope Recalls The Scene Of Little Rock As It Looked In 1832

177 – 07-13-59 – Red Hot Trip’ Includes Visit To Big Rock Hotel

178 – 07-15-59 – Little Rock Paper Gives History Of Arkansas City

179 – 07-17-59 – Augustus Hill Garland: A Truly Able Arkansan

180 – 07-19-59 – Visitor finds Peace But Much Poverty, Discusses Debt Of 1879 With Governor

181 – 07-20-59 – A Continuing Story Of Arkansas In Colorado

182 – 07-22-59 – A Further Listing Of Arkansans In Colorado

183 – 07-24-59 – ‘Exiles’ In Colorado Show Evidence Of Age

184 – 07-26-59 – Alfred W. Arrington, Colorful Figure, Was Minister, Lawyer, Judge, And Writer

185 – 07-27-59 – When Arkansas Tried An Earlier ‘Quota’ System

186 – 07-29-59 – Pike Reports On Early Election Day Oratory

187 – 07-31-59 – A Plea For Justice In Territorial Arkansas

File 12 – August 1959

Articles # 188 – 205:

188 – 08-02-59 – George Maledon, Judge Isaac Parker’s Executioner, Was ‘The Prince Of Hangmen’

189 – 08-03-59 – Adlai Stevenson (1^st): The ‘Idol Of The South’

190 – 08-05-59 – Border Days Provided Slim Fare For Clergy

191 – 08-07-59 – Schooling Hard Going In Earlier Days, Too

192 – 08-09-59 – Old Fort Smith Handbook Told Story Of The City And Its Citizens, Founders

193 – 08-10-59 – McCarthy Rifles Swept The Field In The ‘90s

194 – 08-12-59 – Sport – And Tragedy In Old State House

195 – 08-14-59 – Englishman’s View Of Arkansas In The 1830s

196 – 08-16-59 – Rev. Cephas Washburn Was An Expert On The Cherokee Indians Of Arkansas

197 – 08-17-59 – Grant County Created By The Carpetbaggers

198 – 08-19-59 – Map Of Arkansas Was Changed By Railroads

199 – 08-21-59 – An Insider’s View Of The 1874 Constitution

200 – 08-23-59 – Cassius M. Clay Tells Of The Capture At Encarnacion During Mexican War

201 – 08-24-59 – Nicholas Trammell: An Enterprising Operator

202 – 08-26-59 – Louis Bringier: With Lafitte Up The River

203 – 08-28-59 – Matthew Lyon Victim Of Alien, Sedition Acts

204 – 08-30-59 – Alex A. Lesueur Visits Little Rock And Describes City’s Remarkable Growth

205 – 08-31-59 – How Pine Bluff Came Back From Disasters

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File 13 – September 1959

Articles # 206 – 222:

206 – 09-02-59 – Yankee Paymasters In Role Of Duncan Hines

207 – 09-04-59 – Powell Clayton Looks At Own Administration

208 – 09-06-59 – The Bowie Knife Controversy Was One Of The Longest In Arkansas’s History

209 – 09-07-59 – German Travel Writer Had Rude Introduction

210 – 09-09-59 – A Louisianan Reports On Arkansas Of 1840s

211 – 09-11-59 – Henry C. Byrd Was A Pioneer Portraitist

212 – 09-13-59 – Arkansas’s Famed Mineral Resources Brought On Mining Boom In Late 1800s.

213 – 09-14-59 – A Report On Benton’s Prosperous Beginning

214 – 09-16-59 – Batesville Center For Early Private Schools

215 – 09-18-59 – Eureka Springs Was A Resort Center In ‘80s

216 – 09-20-59 – Governor Drew’s Resignation Led To Wide Speculation In State Legislature

217 – 09-21-59 – The Good Old Days Of Our Self-Sufficiency

218 – 09-23-59 – The Great Textbook Racket Of The 1880s

219 – 09-25-59 – No Room For ‘Jeeves’ In Arkansas Of 1830s.

220 – 09-27-59 – Shooting Of John Garrett In 1828 Led To Jury Investigation But Was Never Solved

221 – 09-28-59 – Germans ‘Invade’ A Fayetteville School

222 – 09-30-59 – Missionary To Texas Kept Arkansas Diary

File 14 – October 1959

Articles # 223-239:

223 – 10-02-59 – ‘End Of World’ Came Frequently In 1800s

224 – 10-04-59 – State Blind School Had Early Economic Troubles But Became A Model Institution

225 – 10-05-59 – Britisher Appalled By Gazette Readers

226 – 10-07-59 – Early Arkansans – A Society Of Hunters

227 – 10-09-59 – Fort Smith Led Way For District Fairs

228 – 10-11-59 – Harper’s Monthly Paints An Interesting Picture Of ‘The Hot Springs’ In The 1870s

229 – 10-??-59 – An Earlier Visitation From Outside Press

230 – 10-14-59 – Inflation Followed Upon Brooks-Baxter

231 – 10-16-59 – The Good And Bad In 1874 Arkansas

232 – 10-18-59 – Methodist Bishop Writes Of His Journey To State’s Conference In Summer Of ‘56

233 – 10-19-59 – Yellow Fever Still A Scourge In 1870s

234 – 10-21-59 – Lumbering Industry Had Slow Beginning

235 – 10-23-59 – Boilers Were Hazard To Steamboat Travel

236 – 10-25-59 – Editor Writes Of ‘Oldest Man In Arkansas’, An Interesting Claim – But A Disputed One

237 – 10-26-59 – New Madrid Quake Felt Far And Near

238 – 10-28-59 – 1860 Visitor Foresaw Hot Springs’ Future

239 – 10-30-59 – A Souvenir Of Davy Crocket’s Passage

File 15 – November 1959

Articles # 240 – 257:

240 – 11-01-59 – Railroad Company ‘Hand-book’ Provides Description Of Conway In Late 1880s

241 – 11-02-59 – The Racing Season In Old Fort Smith

242 – 11-04-59 – An Earlier Effort To ‘Advertise’ Arkansas

243 – 11-06-59 – Partisan Politics In Ante-Bellum Arkansas

244 – 11-08-59 – Kansas Veteran Visits Prairie Grove In 1888 – Writes Interesting Description

245 – 11-09-59 – The Day A Meteorite Fell At Cabin Creek

246 – 11-11-59 – Arkansas Hard Ground For Early Methodists

247 – 11-13-59 – Opie Read: A Vendor Of ‘Arkansaw’ Humor

248 – 11-15-59 – Confederate Veteran Describes Guerrilla Warfare In Northwest Arkansas In 1860s

249 – 11-16-59 – An 1859 ‘Solution’ Of Slavery Problem

250 – 11-18-59 – State Did Its Part In The Mexican War

251 – 11-20-59 – Founding Day For An Arkansas Institution

252 – 11-22-59 – Thanksgiving Is Said To Have Begun In 1855 – But Arkansas Had It In 1847

253 – 11-23-59 – A Missouri Editor’s Report On Arkansas

254 – 11-25-59 – William Cummings: A Whig With Conviction

255 – 11-27-59 – The Fourth’ Shadowed By Discontent In 1860

256 – 11-29-59 – Political Strife Surrounded The Proposal For Construction Of The Old Statehouse

257 – 11-30-59 – A ‘Silent’ Traveler In Arkansas In 1860

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File 16 – December 1959

Articles # 258 – 274:

258 – 12-02-59 – Woodruff’s Account Of The ‘Occupation’

259 – 12-04-59 – Aaron W. Lyon – And The Dwight Mission

260 – 12-06-59 – Hendrix College Had Hard Struggle But One Of Its Benefactors Saw It Through

261 – 12-07-59 – Notes On The Origin Of Symbol, ‘G.T.T.’

262 – 12-09-59 – The Quapaws And The White Man’s Justice

263 – 12-11-59 – A Blow For Culture In Early Little Rock

264 – 12-13-59 – Methodist Minister Tells Interesting Details Of Trip To Fort Coffee In 1840s

265 – 12-14-59 – Graveyard Was Legal Battleground In ‘75

266 – 12-16-59 – A Wheelchair Drummer Travels Up The River

267 – 12-18-59 – Old Post Office Caused A Rousing Controversy

268 - *****Missing Showboat Banjo Paid A Christmas Visit To The Arkansas Valley Cities In 1858

269 – 12-21-59 – An 1841 Account Of Hot Springs’ Magic

270 – 12-23-59 – Arkansas Museum Was Gold Rush ‘Casualty’

271 – 12-25-59 – Exiled Yankee Found A Haven In Arkansas

272 – 12-27-59 - Van Buren Stops In Arkansas In 1842 And Columbia Resident Describes Him

273 – 12-28-59 – A Century-old Gazette Stand For Our Schools

274 – 12-30-59 – City Man Chose Free Air Of Izard County

File 17 – January 1960

Articles # 275 – 292:

275 – 01-01-60 – Indians Knew Jesuit As The ‘Black Chief’

276 – 01-03-60 – An 1880 Description Of Eureka Springs – Arkansas’s Famed ‘City Of The Hills’

277 – 01-04-60 – An 1804 Odyssey Up The ‘Washita’ River

278 – 01-06-60 – Co-education The End For ‘Stern’ St. Johns?

279 – 01-08-60 – Featherstonhaugh: A Less-Jaundiced View

280 – 01-10-60 – James S. Conway Gives Background In Campaign Circular Of July 4, 1836

281 – 01-11-60 – An Oxonian In The Ouachitas Of 1830s

282 – 01-13-60 – An 1843 Trip To The Saline River Country

283 – 01-15-60 – Saline County’s ‘Gold Rush’ Didn’t Pan Out

284 – 01-17-60 – Harper’s Artists Sketch Scenes Of Arkansas And Other Southern States

285 – 01-18-60 – A New Yorker’s View Of Arkansas In 1870s

286 – 01-20-60 – The Sporting Life Of Early Day Arkansas

287 – 01-22-60 – Old Statehouse Cause Of Lingering Dispute

288 – 01-24-60 – Kansan Writes A Description Of State’s Famed Battlefield At Pea Ridge In 1888

289 – 01-25-60 – The Gazette And Its Move To Little Rock

290 – 01-27-60 – A Memoir Of The Road To Old Dwight Mission

291 – 01-29-60 – The Cherokee’s Lived Almost As ‘Americans’

292 – 01-31-60 – Albert Pike’s Book Received With Mixed Feelings In New England

File 18 – February 1960

Articles # 293 – 309:

293 – 02-01-60 – Cleburn: From County Cork To Helena, Ark.

294 – 02-03-60 – ‘Profile In Courage’ From Secession Days

295 – 02-05-60 – Early Lead And Zinc Mining Near Harrison

296 – 02-07-60 – A Kentucky Regiment Comes Through Arkansas In Route To Mexican War

297 – 02-08-60 – High (And Premature) Hopes On White River

298 – 02-10-60 – A ‘Lend-Lease’ Request From Spanish Arkansas

299 – 02-12-60 – The ‘Life Of Ease’ In East Arkansas Of 1857

300 – 02-14-60 – Officer Explores Mississippi Valley In 1790s — And Writes Of Arkansas

301 – 02-15-60 – A Housewife’s Report Of Arkansas Of 1840s

302 – 02-17-60 – W. Irving’s Visit To The Indian Territory

303 – 02-19-60 – An Episcopal Bishop Of The 1859 Frontier

304 – 02-21-60 – Pamphlet Tells Of Sugar Loaf Springs – Now Heber – In Post-Bellum Era

305 – 02-22-60 – A Connecticut Yankee In Old Izard County

306 – 02-24-60 – The End Of The Earth In Old Sevier County

307 – 02-26-60 – A Gentler View Of Arkansas Of 1840s

308 – 02-28-60 – Blind Author Visits Arkansas In 1870s And Writes Of Her Adventures In State

309 – 02-29-60 – When Federal Troops Moved Into Arkansas

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File 19 – March 1960

Articles # 310 – 326:

310 – 03-02-60 – Voyageur Culture In The Arkansas Valley

311 – 03-04-60 – A Gascon Transplant In Jefferson County

312 – 03-06-60 – Historic Dardanelle Is Described In An 1887 Brochure On The Arkansas Valley

313 – 03-07-60 – Mortar–And–Pestle In Arkansas Of The 1880s

314 – 03-09-60 – A Paean To Augusta And The White River

315 – 03-11-60 – A Hoosier's Report On Arkansas Of Mid-1870s

316 – 03-13-60 - Gold Fever Hits In '48 And 'Arkansas Route' Becomes Best Way To The West

317 – 03-14-60 – A Frigid, Down-River Trip To Old Napoleon

318 – 03-16-60 – The 'Akanza' Indians Adopt A New Chieftain

319 – 03-18-60 – Arkansas On 100F's Itinerary In 1896

320 – 03-20-60 – Era Of Luxury Hotels At Hot Springs Featured The Large, Plush Arlington

321 – 03-21-60 – The Abortive Boone County 'Gold Rush'

322 – 03-23-60 – Notes On The Arkansas Delegation Of 1887-'89

323 – 03-25-60 – Little Rock's Public Parks Had Late Start

324 – 03-27-60 – Reports List Progress Of University's Early Efforts To Form Medical School

325 – 03-28-60 – General Steele – And Camden's Occupation

326 – 03-30-60 – ‘Sea Monsters' Along The Lower Mississippi

File 20 – April 1960

Articles # 327 – 343:

327 – 04-01-60 – Miscegenation As An Early Southern Goal

328 – 04-03-60 – Zachary Taylor Describes His Father's And Uncle's Journey Up The Arkansas

329 – 04-04-60 – Arkansas Mosquitoes Find Tasty Prussian

330 – 04-06-60 – Little Rock – And The '73 Cholera Epidemic

331 – 04-08-60 – A Latter-day Job Runs The Mosquito Gantlet

332 – 04-10-60 – Mississippi Doctor Gives A Description Of Hot Springs' Famous Waters In 1804

333 – 04-11-60 – A Missionary's Trip Into Choctaw Nation

334 – 04-13-60 – Arkansas Was Staging Area For Mexican War

335 – 04-15-60 – An English Geologist At The 'Hot Springs'

336 – 04-17-60 – Pamphlet In 1837 Tells Story Of How Famous Cherokee Alphabet Was Born

337 – 04-18-60 – Overland Travel Slow In Arkansas Of 1840s

338 – 04-20-60 – 1840 Arkansas: Nobody Here But Us 'Planters'

339 – 04-22-60 – Hypnotism A Passing Fancy In Marion County

340 – 04-24-60 – 1898 Description Of The Buildings Used By The Old Federal Court At Fort Smith

341 – 04-25-60 – An 1876 Prospectus For Prairie County

342 – 04-27-60 – Bed? And Board For 1820 Mapping Party

343 – 04-29-60 – A Visit To Strawberry And Old Davidsonville

File 21 – May 1960

Articles # 344 – 361:

344 – 05-01-60 – Diamonds Are Discovered In 1906 And A Special Geological Report Is Made

345 – 05-02-60 – Cherokees Saw Need For Dwight Mission

346 – 05-04-60 – Sun-Worshipping On The Lower Arkansas

347 – 05-06-60 – A Survey Of Western Border As War's End

348 – 05-08-60 – The Zinc Boom Comes To Arkansas In The 1890s And Mining Activity Begins

349 – 05-09-60 – An Insalubrious Sojourn At The Arkansas Post

350 – 05-11-60 – The Hazards Of Travel In Arkansas Of 1820s

351 – 05-13-60 – French Took Arkansas Post Census In 1749

352 – 05-15-60 – A Glimpse Of Old Napoleon—From The Advertisements Of The Weekly Planter

353 – 05-16-60 – The Hard (And Fevered) Road To Dwight Mission

354 – 05-18-60 – An Illiniosan's View Of Arkansas In 1918

355 – 05-20-60 – Little Rock's Harsh Winter Of 1863-'64

356 – 05-22-60 – Little Rock's Capital Guards Had Fine Record Of Battle Service In Civil War

357 – 05-23-60 – A Firsthand Report From Elkhorn Tavern

358 – 05-25-60 – The Day Grant Ordered Dessert For Underling

359 – 05-27-60 – The '49ers' In Fort Smith And Van Buren

360 – 05-29-60 – New York Correspondent Tells Of A 'Slow Train' Trip Through Arkansas

361 – 05-30-60 – An earlier Argument over Census Figures

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File 22 – June 1960

Articles # 362 – 378:

362 – 06-01-60 – The Brownfield Family: A Genealogical Rundown

363 – 06-03-60 – Quoting Coleridge In Little Rock Of 1840s

364 – 06-05-60 – Augustus H. Garland Comments On His Memories Of Judge Samuel Miller

365 – 06-06-60 – Arkansas: 'Natural Nursery Of Bacchus'

366 – 06-08-60 – A Frenchman's Dream Of 'Miniature Paris'

367 – 06-10-60 – More Details From A Bubbling Prospectus

368 – 06-12-60 – The Original Arkansas Traveler 'Joins' The Northwestern Editorial Excursion

369 – 06-13-60 – A Perceptive Printer's View Of 'The Territory'

370 – 06-15-60 – The End Of Outdoor Kissing In Capital

371 – 06-17-60 – A Missouri Traveler Along The 'Washitta'

372 – 06-19-60 – Conway County Develops Educational Institutions Following The Civil War

373 – 06-20-60 – Hard Times Catch an Early Ozark Railroad

374 – 06-22-60 – A Summer Voyage Up the Mississippi – 1855

375 – 06-24-60 – Heat Bad, Pay Good in Old Fort Smith

376 – 06-26-60 – Some Memories of the Old Robbins Theater: A True Little Rock Landmark

377 – 06-27-60 – When Unions Convened At 'Early Candlelight'

378 – 06-29-60 – A Street Car Ride to Old West End Par

File 23 – July 1960

Articles # 379 – 394:

379 – 07-01-60 – When Death Came To Arkansas House

380 – 07-03-60 – The Homespun Eloquence Of Jeff Davis Was Aimed At State's Common Man

381 – 07-04-60 – Maryhattiana Observes The 'Glorious Fourth'

382 – 07-06-60 – Martin Van Buren: Hero Turned 'Goat'

383 – 07-08-60 – An Epistle From Capt. Braxton Bragg (U.S.A.)

384 – 07-10-60 – Some Memories Of St. John's College, A Foremost Educational Institution

385 – 07-11-60 – New Christ Church Was Finished In Year 1887

386 – 07-17-60 – Thomas Stevenson Drew Became Governor Of Arkansas By A Political 'Accident'

387 – 07-18-60 – An English Account Of State's Early Society

388 – 07-20-60 – An Army Medic's View Of Arkansas In 1850s

389 – 07-23-60 – Agues And Fever On The Road To Dwight Mission

390 – 07-24-60 – Occupation Of Helena Gave Federals Control Of Part Of Mississippi River

391 – 07-25-60 – Buffalo 'Galls' Won't You Come Out Tonight?

392 – 07-27-60 – From Philadelphia To 'Ozark' The Hard Way

393 – 07-29-60 – Piety In Short Supply In Fort Smith Of 1843

394 – 07-31-60 – Big Rock's Mountain Park Hotel Was A Favorite Little Rock Resort In 1880s

File 24 – August 1960

Articles # 395 – 412:

395 – 08-01-60 – Van Buren As Jump-off Point To The Old West

396 – 08-03-60 – Of Oxford Professors And Drunken 'Texians'

397 – 08-05-60 – Choctaws Were Fearful Of Arkansas Statehood

398 – 08-07-60 – An Account Of A 'Gypsy' Camping Tour Through Sections Of Northern Arkansas

399 – 08-08-60 – Frozen Sacramental Wine In Deep South

400 – 08-10-60 – John Law's Legacy At The Post Of Arkansas

401 – 08-12-60 – Sex And Reminiscence At Hyde's Opera House

402 – 08-14-60 – ‘Arkansas Magazine' Was The First Literary Periodical Published In State

403 – 08-15-60 – An 1826 Report On The Arkansas Hot Springs

404 – 08-17-60 – Pike Had Sharp Ear For Frontier Speech

405 – 08-19-60 – Alligators And Ague Along The Red River

406 – 08-21-60 – Souvenir Issue Of Old Jonesboro Times Tells Of Community's Era Of Prosperity

407 – 08-22-60 – The Do's And Don'ts Of University Life In '73

408 – 08-24-60 – Cruelty To Slaves Was Really Yankees' Fault

409 – 08-26-60 – A Naturalist's Report From Western Arkansas

410 – 08-28-60 – Methodist Bishop Writes An Interesting Account Of His Journey Through State

411 – 08-29-60 – Shifting Channels On 'The Father Of Floods’

412 – 08-30-60 – Osage Resentment For The Spanish Presence

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File 25 – September 1960

Articles # 413 – 429:

413 – 09-02-60 – Vital Statistics In Ante-bellum Arkansas

414 – 09-04-60 – Old Book Tells Of The Organization Of Arkansas's 'Jackson Guards' Company

415 – 09-05-60 – Fun And Games In Hot Springs Of The 1840s

416 – 09-07-60 – An Early Example Of The Quickie Divorce

417 – 09-09-60 – From 'Old Vienna' To The Cherokee Nation

418 – 09-11-60 – Arkansan Writes Interesting Description Of The New Madrid Earthquake Of 1811

419 – 09-12-60 – ‘New Madrid' Brought Terror To The River

420 – 09-14-60 – Adding Up The Score On New Madrid Quake

421 – 09-16-60 – ‘New Madrid' Effects Felt Over Large Area

422 – 09-18-60 – Political Controversy And Litigation Delayed Construction Of State Capitol

423 – 09-19-60 – Factories Of '80s Too Prone To Toot Whistle

424 – 09-21-60 – The Early Rush For Bids To Annapolis

425 – 09-23-60 – An Early History Of Banking In Arkansas

426 – 09-25-60 – Old Little Rock University Drew An Impressive Enrollment In First Year

427 – 09-26-60 – The Bank Of Maryland Expands Into Arkansas

428 – 09-28-60 – Federal Aid Proposed For The Creek Nation

429 – 09-30-60 – ‘Pardon Me, But Are You Harry S. Truman?'

File 26 – October 1960

Articles # 430 – 447:

430 – 10-02-60 – New York Correspondent Writes Of The First Part Of Battle Of Pea Ridge

431 – 10-03-60 – Minister's Report From The Arkansas Territory

432 – 10-05-60 – A Sentimental Journey Back To Prairie Grove

433 – 10-07-60 – A Frenchman's Contacts With 'Akanzas' Indians

434 – 10-09-60 – Letter Tells Of Work On 'Great Raft' And Describes Journey To Hot Springs

435 – 10-10-60 – A Glowing Look At The Spadra Mining Country

436 – 10-12-60 – A Sociological Study Of Frontier Arkansas

437 – 10-14-60 – The Schoolcraft Party Visits North Arkansas

438 – 10-16-60 – 1862 Letter From David O. Dodd Tells Of His Work As A Telegrapher In Monroe

439 – 10-17-60 – Archibald Yell As A 'Man Of The People'

440 – 10-19-60 – An 1822 Penetration Of Red River Country

441 – 10-21-60 – A Missionary Bishop's First Arkansas Visit

442 – 10-23-60 – City's Business Leaders United In '80s To Form New Commercial Exchange

443 – 10-24-60 – Early Pilgrimages To The 'Arsenic Spring'

444 – 10-26-60 – Arkansas Dogs Unkind To Strangers In 1838

445 – 10-28-60 – An 1820 Survey Along The Western Frontier

446 – 10-30-60 – Conflicting Ownership Claims Impeded The Progress Of Hot Springs In 1800s

447 – 10-31-60 – Genteel Learning In Fayetteville Of 1847

File 27 – November 1960

Articles # 448 – 464:

448 – 11-02-60 – Dwight Mission Had To Break Some Hard Turf

449 – 11-04-60 – Wallflowers Few In Little Rock Of 1843

450 – 11-06-60 – Book 'Outposts Of Zion' Tells Of River Trip From Napoleon To Jefferson County

451 – 11-07-60 – Spaniard vs. Indian In Arkansas Of 1790s

452 – 11-09-60 – War Changed System Of Supplying Plantations

453 – 11-11-60 – Gerstaecker In Search Of Men Nine Feet Tall

454 – 11-13-60 – Thomas Hart Benton Writes Of 1828 Cession Of State Lands To Cherokees

455 – 11-14-60 – Hard Lines On Road To Camp Walker (II)

456 – 11-16-60 – An Examination Of The Unionist View In 1860

457 – 11-18-60 – North Arkansas Still No Man's Land In '65

458 – 11-20-60 – The Gazette, Founded At Arkansas Post, Will Observe 141^st Anniversary Today

459 – 11-21-60 – A Fun-loving Drummer On The Texarkana Run

460 – 11-23-60 – An Irish Catholic's Mission To Arkansas

461 – 11-25-60 – A 19^th Century Look At Arkansas's Press

462 – 11-27-60 – Clergyman-Author Describes Band Of Religious Fanatics Near Arkansas Post

463 – 11-28-60 – ‘Bill Cush' Among The California 'Goldbugs'

464 – 11-30-60 – The Graceful Life In Ante-bellum Arkansas

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File 28 – December 1960

Articles # 465 – 481:

465 – 12-02-60 – A Night At Altus' 'Old Licker House'

466 – 12-04-60 – Document By Judge U.M. Rose Gives Views On The Pronunciation Of 'Arkansas'

467 – 12-05-60 – Harrison's Go-getters At Turn Of The Century

468 – 12-07-60 – Free Translation In The Cherokee Nation

469 – 12-09-60 – Game Bags And Carpet Bags In Booming '70s

470 – 12-11-60 – Engineer Officer Visits Hot Springs In '18 – And Describes Its Topography, Geology

471 – 12-12-60 – A Close-up Look At John Law's Failure

472 – 12-14-60 – When 'Circuit-riding' Was A Spiritual Test

473 – 12-16-60 – The Chickasaws Could Drive A Hard Bargain

474 – 12-18-60 – Father Marquette Visits 'Arkansas And Writes Of Voyage Down The Mississippi

475 – 12-19-60 - Some Medical History Reflections (Pre-AMA)

476 – 12-21-60 – The Martial Spirit In White County – Pre-war

477 – 12-23-60 – Schoolcraft And The Poke Bayou 'Colons'

478 – 12-25-60 – Businessman Visits Little Rock In '45 And Compliments Its Friendly People

479 – 12-26-60 – No Tea And Toast On Our Indian Frontier

480 – 12-28-60 – Oxford Don Meets His First 'Circuit-rider'

481a – 12-30-60 – New Civil War Series Will Begin Next Week

481b – 12-30-60 – Beginning Sunday – Chronicles Of Arkansas Presents THE CIVIL WAR IN ARKANSAS

File 29 – (2^nd Series) January-February 1961

Articles # 482 – 515:

482 – 01-01-61 – New Year's Day Of 1861 Dawned On A Tense And Uneasy State And Nation

483 – 01-02-61 – Civil War Separated Talkers From Do-ers

484 – 01-04-61 – Time Grows Short For Backers Of The Union

485 – 01-06-61 – Gazette Views The New Year With Foreboding

486 – 01-08-61 – 1860 Governor's Nomination Brings A Three Way Split In Democratic Party

487 – 01-09-61 – An Uneasy 'Normality' On The Eve Of Battle

488 – 01-11-61 – Drum-maker Suggests A 'Buy Arkansas' Policy

489 – 01-13-61 – State Moves Toward Point Of No Return

490 – 01-15-61 – Gazette's Policy In 1860: Constitution Can Resolve North-South Differences

491 – 01-16-61 – Gazette Changes Line On The Biggest Issue

492 – 01-18-61 – Buchanan's Policy: Too Much – Too Late

493 – 01-20-61 – Georgia Elects Route Of The Secessionists

494 – 01-22-61 – Family Letters Show Differences Over The Burning Issue Of Secession In '61

495 – 01-23-61 - Danley Dons Second Hat As Arms Buyer

496 – 01-25-61 – Secessionist Party Draws New Recruits

497 – 01-27-61 – ‘Moderates' Face The Old Familiar Squeeze

498 – 01-29-61 – Newly Opened Telegraph Office Plays Significant Part In Secession Move

499 – 01-30-61 – Little Rock Arsenal A Small-bore Sumter

500 – 02-01-61 – Rector Sends Smoke Signal To The West

501 – 02-03-61 – Arkansas Begins To Batten Down Hatches

502 – 02-05-61 – False Rumor Tells Of Reinforcements For Arsenal; Rector Organizes Defense

503 – 02-06-61 – Governor 'Interposes' Between Mob, Troops

504 – 02-08-61 – ‘Preservator' Rector Takes Key To Arsenal

505 – 02-10-61 – ‘Minority' Cause Of Little Rock Trouble

506 – 02-12-61 – Unionists And Secessionists Alike Were Opposed To Seizure Of Federal Arsenal

507 – 02-13-61 – Irregulars Move In On Army's Supplies

508 – 02-15-61 – Hope Of Peace Was Long Time A-dying

509 – 02-17-61 – Voters Asked To Look Again Before Leaping

510 – 02-19-61 - As Arkansas Held Convention Election, The South Inaugurated Its President

511 – 02-20-61 – Delegates Disclose Their Allegiances

512 – 02-22-61 – More Delegates Show Their Affiliations

513 – 02-24-61 – Still More On The Convention Line-up

514 – 02-26-61 – Secession Feeling In State Ran High But Fort Smith Area Stood For Union

515 – 02-27-61 – Children's Crusade In Arkansas County

File 30 – March-April 1961

Articles # 516 – 550:

516 – 03-01-61 – Albert Pike Switches To Secessionist Line

517 – 03-03-61 – Convention Settles Upon Its Officers

518 – 03-05-61 - March 4, 1861—State Awaited Word Of President Lincoln's Inaugural Address

519 – 03-06-61 – The Sparring Begins In State Convention

520 – 03-08-61 – Initial Secession Motion Is Entered

521 – 03-10-61 – More Minds Changed By Lincoln's Speech

522 – 03-12-61 – Convention Resolution Proposed Eight Amendments To Resolve The Controversy

523 – 03-13-61 - Rector Sends Formal Word To Convention

524 – 03-15-61 – Unionists' Good Faith Impeached

525 – 03-17-61 – Outsiders Push The Secession Campaign

526 – 03-19-61 – Convention Continued While Arkansas's Leaders Debated Secession Ordinance

527 – 03-20-61 – Extremists Suffer Temporary Setback

528 – 03-22-61 – The First Convention Session Is Adjourned

529 – 03-24-61 - Two Sides Prepare For Showdown Vote

530 – 03-26-61 – Resolutions, Circulars Urge Secession As Feeling On Issue Mounts Throughout State

531 – 03-27-61 – Gazette Comes To Aid Of Union's Defenders

532 – 03-29-61 – Gazette Carries The Fight To 'Cossacks'

533 – 03-31-61 - Gazette Firm For Moderates' Cause

534 – 04-02-61 – First Cavalry, Stationed At Fort Smith, Provided Top Generals For Both Armies

535 – 04-03-61 – Troops Begin Some Preliminary Moves

536 – 04-05-61 – The Letter-writers Chafe For Showdown

537 – 04-07-61 – Army Shapes Up Its Defenses On Border

538 – 04-09-61 – Sumter Falls—Lincoln's Proclamation Is Final Blow To Unionism In Arkansas

539 – 04-10-61 – Dancing On The Brink With A Ballet Master

540 – 04-12-61 – The Military Drilling Now Begins In Earnest

541 – 04-14-61 – Lincoln Issues His Call To The Troops

542 – 04-16-61 – Northern, Western Sections Of State Receive News Of Proclamation, Sumter

543 – 04-17-61 – Report Form Sumter Changes Everything

544 – 04-19-61 – Arkansans Rally To Different Standard

545 – 04-21-61 – Second Convention Call Made Official

546 – 04-23-61 – Five Military Units From Little Rock, Pulaski County Embark For Fort Smith

547 – 04-24-61 – Confederates Make Counter Troop Call

548 – 04-26-61 – Arkansas Sends Its Initial Volunteers

549 – 04-28-61 – Editor Of Gazette Outlines Strategy

550 – 04-30-61 – Cincinnati Group Seizes Arms Shipment Bound For Arkansas – State Retaliates

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File 31 – May-June 1961

Articles # 551 – 585:

551 – 05-01-61 – May Day Revelries Take On New Sound

552 – 05-03-61 – ‘Defiant' Loner Is Brought Into Line

553 – 05-05-61 – Time For Choosing Up On The Campuses

554 – 05-07-61 – Convention Meets And Takes Historic Step – State Secedes From The Union

555 – 05-08-61 – One More Vote For Secession Majority

556 – 05-10-61 – ‘Regulators' Ride In Prairie County

557 – 05-12-61 – Convention Speeds Order Of Business

558 – 05-14-61 – 1^st Arkansas Infantry Assembles After Secession Ordinance, Moves To Virginia

559 – 05-15-61 – Second Thoughts On Seizure Of 'Arago'

560 – 05-17-61 – Privateering Gets Convention's Okay

561 – 05-19-61 – Pike On Mission To The Indian Country

562 – 05-21-61 – Convention Asks Confederacy's Plans For Defense Of East, West Frontiers

563 – 05-22-61 – Convention Acts To Bridge A New Chasm

564 – 05-24-61 – State Troops Move To Western Border

565 – 05-26-61 – The War-like Spirit And The Word Of God

566 – 05-28-61 – Confederacy Seeks Arkansas Regiments For Assignment To The Indian Frontier

567 – 05-29-61 – Vigilantes Rally In Fulton County

568 – 05-31-61 – Unrest, Confusion Beset State Banks

569 – 06-02-61 – Arkansas Force On Scene In Virginia

570 – 06-04-61 – Convention Completes Its Business – Session Finally Adjourns On June 1, 1861

571 – 06-05-61 – Union Forces Fear Move Toward Cairo

572 – 06-07-61 – Hindman Ready To Leave For Virginia

573 – 06-09-61 – Encampments Set Up Along Mississippi

574 – 06-11-61 – The South Adopts 'Dixie' As Its Song - - Albert Pike Composes Popular Variation

575 – 06-12-61 – Invincible Guards Move Into Capital

576 – 06-14-61 – Davis Sets Day For Fasting And Prayer

577 – 06-16-61 – A Firm 'No' From Cherokee Nation

578 – 06-18-61 – Events In Missouri Provide Background For The Civil War Situation In Arkansas

579 – 06-19-61 – Change Of Name For Totten's Artillery

580 – 06-21-61 – Arkansas Divided On Use Of Troops

581 – 06-23-61 – State Troubled By Indian Neutralists

582 – 06-25-61 – McCulloch Rallies People Of State To Repel Possible Invasion From Missouri

583 – 06-26-61 – ‘First' Fourth Is Observed As Usual

584 – 06-28-61 – News Blackout Is Observed In State

585 – 06-30-61 – Sale Of War Bonds Picks Up In State

File 32 – July-August 1961

Articles # 586 – 620:

586 – 07-02-61 – Sate Troops March Toward Missouri, Meet Enemy, Win Bloodless Victory

587 – 07-03-61 - Pike's Mission To Creeks Successful

588 – 07-05-61 – Union Rebuffed In Southern Missouri

589 – 07-07-61 – McCulloch Pulls Back To Regroup

590 – 07-09-61 – War Preparations Continue As Forces Under McCulloch Advance In Missouri

591 – 07-10-61 – McCulloch Shifts Encampment Place

592 – 07-12-61 – Spa Eyes War Nix On Tourist Trade

593 – 07-14-61 – South Sees Signs Of Divine Intervention

594 – 07-16-61 – General Hardee, Over Opposition, Makes Transfer Of State Troops To Confederacy

595 – 07-17-61 – State Continues To Mobilize And Deploy

596 – 07-19-61 – Self-censorship In The Arkansas Press

597 – 07-21-61 – Red Tape Delays Troop Transfers

598 – 07-23-61 – Bull Run—First Great Battle Of War - - Ends In Decisive Confederate Victory

599 – 07-24-61 – State Claims Own 'Volunteer' Motto

600 – 07-26-61 – State Inventories Its War Materials

601 – 07-28-61 – Adopting That Old 'Intercourse Law'

602 – 07-30-61 – McCulloch, Pearce And Price Agree To Join Forces For March On Springfield

603 – 07-31-61 – Scorecards Differ On Missouri Ambush

604 – 08-02-61 – The Stage Is Set At Wilson's Creek

605 – 08-04-61 – Feds Steal A March In Early Morning Raid

606 – 08-06-61 – North, South Both Claim Victory At Wilson's Creek— But South Won It

607 – 08-07-61 – Second-guessing After Oak Hills

608 – 08-09-61 – Price, McCulloch, Split On Strategy

609 – 08-11-61 – Second-guessing On Battle Of Oak Hills

610 – 08-13-61 – Union Forces, Reinforcements Missing, Retreat From Springfield To Rolla, Mo.

611 – 08-14-61 – Newspapers Laud Woodruff's Unit

612 – 08-16-61 – More Dissension On Transfer Of Troops

613 – 08-18-61 – In Camp With The 'Fourth Arkansas'

614 – 08-20-61 - With Unity Of Command, Supplies, Arms – Confederacy Might Have Taken Missouri

615 – 08-21-61 – Waiting For The Word From Old New Madrid

616 – 08-23-61 – State Prepares For A New Kind Of Vote

617 – 08-25-61 – Recruiters Moving In On Little Rock

618 – 08-27-61 – McCulloch Decides To Fall Back To Arkansas To Strengthen His Brigade

619 – 08-28-61 – ‘Rhyme And Reason' South Of That Line

620 – 08-30-61 – War Effort Hurt By Newsprint Shortage

File 33 – September-October 1961

Articles # 621 – 681:

621 – 09-01-61 – Preparations For School Affected By War Fears

622 – 09-02-61 – How Arkansas Schools Planned For 1861 Terms

623 – 09-03-61 – Conflicting Reports, Criticism - - Charges Of Cowardice Mark Battle Of Oak Hills

624 – 09-04-61 – Arguments Over Arms And Areas Of Command

625 – 09-05-61 – Deployment, Transfers, Supply Cause Headaches

626 – 09-06-61 – Need For Guns Published As Armory Established

627 – 09-07-61 – Problem Of Protection For Western Arkansas

628 – 09-08-61 – Jealousy, Resentment Crop Up In Command

629 – 09-09-61 – Military Board Comes In For Additional Criticism

630 – 09-10-61 – Confederate Election Of '61 Unusual – Davis And Stephens Had No Opposition

631 – 09-11-61 – Recruiting Campaign Is Pushed In Arkansas

632 – 09-12-61 – Yankee P.O.W.S Create Mild Sensation In State

633 – 09-13-61 – Soldiers Elect Officers And Get Some Clothes

634 – 09-14-61 – Volunteers Homesick, They Decide To Disband

635 – 09-15-61 – Pike Calls On Choctaws To Join Confederacy

636 – 09-16-61 – Hardee Gets Orders To Move His Command

637 – 09-17-61 – Arkansas Names Four Members To The Confederate House Of Representatives

638 – 09-18-61 – Governor Rector Calls For More Volunteers

639 – 09-19-61 – Army Officers Seek Clothing Contributions

640 –*****Missing

641 – 09-21-61 – Fame Comes To Dentist After Illinois Shooting

642 – 09-22-61 – McCulloch Refuses To March With Price

643 – 09-23-61 – Price Meets The Enemy Near Dry Wood, Mo.

644 – 09-24-61 – Price Advances Through Missouri And Wins A Major Victory At Lexington

645 – 09-25-61 – Fall Of Lexington, Mo., Severe Blow To Union

646 – 09-26-61 – Union's General Lane Adds To His Reputation

647 – 09-27-61 – McCulloch Uses Threats To Get Some Weapons

648 – 09-28-61 – Volunteers Are Sought For Artillery Company

649 – 09-29-61 – Controversy Flares Up Over Calling Of Troops

650 – 09-30-61 – Little Rock Gets Word: Railroad Bridge Finished

652 – 10-02-61 – Absent Officials Urged To Return Or Resign

653 – 10-03-61 – The Third Arkansas Demonstrates Its Valor

654 – 10-04-61 – Little Rock Ladies Sew And Sponsor Concerts

655 – 10-05-61 – Campaigns For Clothing Meet Good Response

656 – 10-06-61 – Inventors Keep Busy To Meet War Demands

657 – 10-07-61 – Charges Of Cowardice Still Haunt Volunteers

658 – 10-08-61 – Pike Concludes Treaty With Cherokees Allying The Tribe With The Confederacy

659 – 10-09-61 – Invasion Threat Spurs State Recruiting Efforts

660 – 10-10-61 – N.Y. Journal's Report Irks The True Democrat

661 – 10-11-61 – The South Realizes Need For Home Manufacturing

662 – 10-12-61 – Needing Lead, The South Seizes Missouri Mines

663 – 10-13-61 – Wool, Cotton Present Problems In Blockade

664 – 10-14-61 – Two Politicians Battle Over 'Personal Matter'

665 – 10-15-61 – Fremont Takes Command Of Federal Army, Plans All-out Campaign Against Price

666 – 10-16-61 – McCulloch's Dilemma Awakens People In State

667 – 10-17-61 – McCulloch Death Report Is Received With Mirth

668 – 10-18-61 – Arkansas Uses Prison As War Manufactory

669 – 10-19-61 – Receivers Are Named For Sequestration Act

670 – 10-20-61 – Religious Meetings Held Despite War Difficulties

671 – 10-21-61 – Educator Establishes Language Study Classes

672 – 10-22-61 – General Thompson's Missouri Maneuvers Touch Off Invasion Panic In Arkansas

673 – 10-23-61 – Tax-paying Big Problem For Money Less Citizens

674 – 10-24-61 – Confederate Currency Grabbed Up Eagerly

675 – 10-25-61 – Better Communication Is Noted In Arkansas

676 – 10-26-61 – Little Rock Tightens 'Pass' Rule For Negroes

677 – 10-27-61 – Seized U.S. Land Used To Back Up War Bonds

678 – 10-28-61 – Deposed Missourians Vote To Join South

679 – 10-29-61 – Johnson, Mitchel Are Named Arkansas's Members Of Senate Of The Confederacy

680 – 10-30-61 – 3 Arkansas Companies Organized Into Battalion

681 – 10-31-61 – Governors, Newspapers Assail War Speculators

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File 34 – November-December 1961

Articles # 682 – 742:

682 – 11-01-61 – News Reaches Arkansas Of Federal Shipbuilding

683 – 11-02-61 – Soldiers Keep Friends And Families Informed

684 – 11-03-61 – War News Crowds Out Reporting On Little Rock

685 – 11-04-61 – Two Views Put Forth On Defense Of Arkansas

686 – 11-05-61 – Special Legislative Session Convenes - Rector Calls For Irish, German Regiments

687 – 11-06-61 – War Bond Depreciation Causes Much Concern

688 – 11-07-61 – Charges Of Inefficiency Plague Military Board

689 – 11-08-61 – Home Guard Abolished In Favor Of The Militia

690 – 11-09-61 – Railroad Faces Threat Of Losing Land In State

691 – 11-10-61 – Memphis Home Provides Care For Ill Soldiers

692 – 11-11-61 – Information On Industry Sought By Confederacy

693 – 11-12-61 – Grant Attacks At Belmont, Mo. – Secures Position And Retires; Both Claim Victory

694 – 11-13-61 – Shadow Of Suspicion Falls On Germans, Irish

695 – 11-14-61 – Negroes Do Their Part In Fund-raising Drives

696 – 11-15-61 – Much Progress Made In Telegraph Service

697 – 11-16-61 – Women's New Fashions Irritate Journal Editor

698 – 11-17-61 – Uncertainty Of River Still A Big Problem

699 – 11-18-61 – New Little Rock Daily Boasts Big Circulation

700 – 11-19-61 – Federal Force, Including Grant, Takes The Field Against General M. Jeff Thompson

701 – 11-20-61 – Volunteers Sign Up For The Fourth Arkansas

702 – 11-21-61 – Colonel Cleburne Wins Promotion To General

703 – 11-22-61 – Confederates Construct Fortifications On River

704 – 11-23-61 – Pike Gets Command Of Indian Territory

705 – 11-24-61 – General Hindman Routs The Yankees In Kentucky

706 – 11-25-61 – Masons And Odd Fellows Convene At Little Rock

707 – 11-26-61 – Union Forces Withdraw From Springfield – Halleck Takes Over Western Command

708 – 11-27-61 – Arkansas Press Slow To Criticize McCulloch

709 – 11-28-61 – Another Battalion Joins Service Of Confederacy

710 – 11-29-61 – Unionists From Hills Face Treason Charges

711 – 11-30-61 – Military Takes Steps To Curb Speculators

712 – 12-01-61 – Ex-Arkansan Invents New Battering Ram

713 – 12-02-61 – Press, Military Board Keep Old Feud Going

714 – 12-03-61 – Gazette's Criticism Of Military Board Results In Challenge To Editor Danley

715 – 12-04-61 – Commanders Of Militia Inspect Their Units

716 – 12-05-61 – Journal's Weekly Paper Fails To Get Off Ground

717 – 12-06-61 – Price's Aide Visits State To Enlist Some Troops

718 – 12-07-61 – 4 Entertainments Held For Benefit Of Soldiers

719 – 12-08-61 – 4^th Arkansas Leaves Little Rock For Kentucky

720 – 12-09-61 – McCulloch's Troops Go Into Winter Quarters

721 – 12-10-61 – Conflict Between McCulloch And Price Rises; Former Pleads Case In Richmond

722 – 12-11-61 – Garland Wins Election; Unionist Charge Fails

723 – 12-12-61 – Mechanics Unite To Fight Pay System's Hazards

724 – 12-13-61 – Funds Are Apportioned For Railroad Completion

725 – 12-14-61 – Two Colonels' Dispute Comes Before Public

726 – 12-15-61 – Artillery Group Forms, Moves To Little Rock

727 – 12-16-61 – Secession Almost Halts Arkansas’s Commerce

728 – 12-17-61 – Davis Strongly Resists Proposal To Give Western Command To Gen. Sterling Price

729 – 12-18-61 – Confederate Congress Enacts Bonus Legislation

730 – 12-19-61 – 12^th Arkansas Regiment Is Sent To Missouri Fort

731 – 12-20-61 – Loss Of Postal System Brings South Problems

732 – 12-21-61 – Borland Stays In News With Order On Finance

733 – 12-22-61 – Little Rock Firm Tries To Keep Prices Down

734 – 12-23-61 – Hindman’s Men Asked To A Ball In Kentucky

735 – 12-24-61 – Colonel Cooper Conducts Campaign In The Indian Territory West Of Arkansas

736 – 12-25-61 – Sixth Arkansas Treated To Feast For Federals

737 – 12-26-61 – Pike Goes To Richmond With His Indian Treaties

738 – 12-27-61 – Journal Gives Report Of A Kansas Refugee

739 – 12-28-02 – Newspapers Take Up Discussion Of New Flag

740 – 12-29-61 – Southerners Examine Symbols Of Old Nation

741 – 12-30-61 – The 12-months Soldiers Receive Poor Treatment

742 – 12-31-61 – Secret Society Of Union Sympathizers Is discovered In Northern Arkansas

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BOX 2

File 1, – January-February 1962

Article’s # 743 – 801:

743 – 01-01-62 – Gee’s Fifteenth Infantry Enters Army Of South

744 – 01-02-62 – Two Missourians Sent To Get Arkansas Legion

745 – 01-03-62 – Missouri General Fails To Receive Appointment

746 – 01-04-62 – Gantt Requests Troops From State; Plea Denied

747 – 01-05-62 – Officers Hope To Put Arkansans In 1 Brigade

748 – 01-06-62 – Few Arkansans Made Generals; Papers Gripe

749 – 01-07-62 – Capable And Well-qualified West Pointer Takes Over Trans-Mississippi District

750 – 01-08-62 – Several In State Offer Designs For South’s Flag

751 – 01-09-62 – 1861 Cotton Is Unsold, Presents Farm Problem

752 – 01-10-62 – South Realizes Need To Be Self-Sustaining

753 – 01-11-62 – Mayor Of Little Rock Re-Elected Unopposed

754 – 01-12-62 – Special Session Passes Plan On Tax Relief

755 – 01-12-62 – Facing Money Crisis, South Turns To Bonds

756 – 01-14-62 – January 26 Is Historic Day For State - - Memphis And Little Rock Railroad Opens

757 – 01-15-62 – Little Rock Unprepared For Maxey’s ill Soldiers

758 – 01-16-62 – State Sadly Lacking In Hospital Facilities

759 – 01-17-62 – Newspapers Modify Attacks On Military Board

760 – 01-18-62 – Journal Tries To ‘Divide’ Press Foes Of Rector

761 – 01-19-62 – War Begins To Take Toll Among Newspapers

762 – 01-20-62 – Produce Sales Controls Bring Attacks On Borland

763 – 01-21-62 – Federal Army Uses The Winter Months To Train Troops - - CSA Misses Opportunity

764 – 01-22-62 – Pike Returns To State After Report On Indians

765 – 01-23-62 – Many Arkansans Cured At Hospital In Memphis

766 – 01-24-62 – Little Rock Business Thrives Despite War

767 – 01-25-62 – General, Paper Offer Wool-Weaving Prizes

768 – 01-26-62 – Sectional Bias Distorts News From The North

769 – 01-27-62 – Pillow’s Claim To Fame Based On Martial Career

770 – 01-28-62 – Confederate, Union Armies Plan Major Reorganizations In two Vital Theaters

771 – 01-29-62 – Pennsylvania Captain Sank Boat Deliberately

772 – 01-30-62 – Rise In Cost Of Living Greater At Little Rock

773 – 01-31-62 – Little Rock Man Finds A New Tanning Process

774 – 02-01-62 – Rail Firm Asks Funds To Complete Its Line

775 – 02-02-62 – Need For Small Change Continues To Be Problem

776 – 02-03-62 – Confederate Congress Holds Its First Session

777 – 02-04-62 – Fall Of An Important Fort In Tennessee Shocks Confederacy From Complacency

778 – 02-05-62 – Little Rock Realizes Need For A Hospital

779 – 02-06-62 – News Of February ’62 Tells Of Army Changes

780 – 02-07-62 – Arrival Of Van Dorn Curtails Recruiting Plan

781 – 02-08-62 – Rector Issues Request For 8,500 Volunteers

782 – 02-09-62 – Gazette Attacks Gantt As Incompetent, Climber

783 – 02-10-62 – Two Generals’ Arrival Brings Troops To Posts

784 – 02-11-62 – Grant Takes Fort Donelson, Tennessee, In First Major Victory For Union Army

785 – 02-12-62 – Forts Henry, Donelson Fall; South Is Alarmed

786 – 02-13-62 – Van Dorn Gives Orders To Concentrate Troops

787 – 02-14-62 – Price Tarries Too Long At Offices In Springfield

788 – 02-15-62 – Reports Of Price Retreat Reach Colonel Herbert

789 – 02-16-62 – South Reportedly Wins Skirmish At Potts’ Hill

790 – 02-17-62 – North’s General Asboth Sent To Take Bentonville

791 – 02-18-62 – McCulloch’s ‘Scorched Earth’ Policy Draws Strong Protests Over The State

792 – 02-19-62 – Curtis Orders Asboth To Enter Fayetteville

793 – 02-20-62 – Confederates Restless At Camp In Mountains

794 – 02-21-62 – Federal Numbers, Actions Are Difficult To Estimate

795 – 02-22-62 – New Threat Of Invasion Presented In Northeast

796 – 02-23-62 – Price Wants Position; Two Others Fall Back

797 – 02-24-62 – Crump’s Cavalry Unit Honored At Washington

798 – 02-25-62 – Prelude To Pea Ridge-Two Great Armies Assemble In Hills Of Northwest Arkansas

799 – 02-26-62 – 17^th Arkansas Regiment Plagued By Disasters

800 – 02-27-62 – Request Of Van Dorn Boosts State Recruiting

801 – 02-28-62 – General Van Dorn Visits Camp To Settle Dispute

File 2 – March-April 1962

Articles # 802 – 862:

802 – 03-01-62 – Van Dorn Begins Drive Toward Federal Camps

803 – 03-02-62 – Union Private Gathers Facts On Price’s Camp

804 – 03-03-62 – Carr’s Division Arrives Before Van Dorn Acts

805 – 03-04-62 – Bloody Battle Of Pea Ridge Begins

806 – 03-05-62 – Van Dorn, Curtis Review Events, Await The Dawn

807 – 03-06-62 – Curtis Moves Troops, Orders Them To Hold

808 – 03-07-62 – Illinois Company Fires, Ends McCulloch’s Career

809 – 03-08-62 – Curtis’ Title For Battle Remains: It’s Pea Ridge

810 – 03-09-62 – Reports Of Battle Events Given; Many Fantastic

811 – 03-10-62 – Soldiers Attribute Defeat To Death Of 2 Leaders

812 – 03-11-62 – Second Day Of Pea Ridge Dawns

813 – 03-12-62 – Reports On Armies’ Size At Pea Ridge Conflict

814 – 03-13-62 – Van Dorn Sends Party To Negotiate Exchange

815 – 03-14-62 – Two Doctors Provide Pea Ridge Information

816 – 03-15-62 – Curtis Protests Tactics Of Albert Pike’s Indians

817 – 03-16-62 – *****Missing

818 – 03-17-62 – News From Pea Ridge Distributed Quite Slowly

819 – 03-18-62 – The Retreat From Pea Ridge- It Was More Disastrous Than A Dozen Battles

820 – 03-19-62 – Telegraph Lines Used To Advantage Of Curtis

821 – 03-20-62 – Several Divisions Late For Battle Of Pea Ridge

822 – 03-21-62 – Fire Prompts Report That Dead Were Burned

823 – 03-22-62 – Curtis Moves Quarters To Appraise Situation

824 – 03-23-62 – Expedition Sent To Find Confederate Guerrillas

825 – 03-24-62 – South Suffers Heaviest In River Swamp Fighting

826 – 03-25-62 – Governor Rector Calls Special Session Of Assembly Despite Strong Opposition

827 – 03-26-62 – Nine Union Soldiers Win Medals In Arkansas Duty

828 – 03-27-62 – Land Sales Suspended, Land Officers’ Pay Cut

829 – 03-28-62 – 2 Arkansas Acts Reject Grain Shortage Of War

830 – 03-29-62 – Fayetteville Judge Holds Staunch Union Sentiment

831 – 03-30-62 – Curtis Orders Troops To Behave Cautiously

832 – 03-31-62 – Troops Continue Moving Although Van Dorn Gone

833 – 04-01-62 – Confederate Forces Make Their Stand At Island 10, Below Columbus, Kentucky

834 – 04-02-62 – Brent Finds Evacuation Early At New Madrid

835 – 04-03-62 – Stewart And Walker Direct 2 Evacuations

836 – 04-04-62 – 1862 Congress Ponders How To Abolish Slavery

837 – 04-05-62 – Senator Johnson Had Great Political Influence

838 – 04-06-62 – Johnson, Rector Agree Fighting Needs Limiting

839 – 04-07-62 – Many Non-Arkansans Raise Troops In State

840 – 04-08-62 – Federal General John Pope Establishes Base Of Operations Against Island 10

841 – 04-09-62 – Cook Commands Troops In Evacuation Of Island

842 – 04-10-62 – Reports Unsatisfactory On Action On Island 10

843 – 04-11-62 – Pope Goes Down River After Taking Island 10

844 – 04-12-62 – Federal Visit At Osceola Used To Survey Region

845 – 04-13-62 – Planters Are Requested To Give Plantation Bells

846 – 04-14-62 – Men Are Off To War, Women Begin Working

847 – 04-15-62 – Shiloh- One Of The Bloodiest Battles Of Civil War – Is Fought In Tennessee

848 – 04-16-62 – 13^th Arkansas Regiment Fought In Shiloh Battle

849 – 04-17-62 – Two Helena Generals Direct Brigades At Shiloh

850 – 04-18-62 – Patterson’s 8^th Arkansas Was In Wood’s Brigade

851 – 04-19-62 – Capital Guards Captain Describes Shiloh Vividly

852 – 04-20-62 – Federal Army Begins Drive From Pea Ridge

853 – 04-21-62 – Confederate Congress Passes Conscription Act

854 – 04-22-62 – Van Dorn Plans To Move His Forces To Co-operate With Johnston, Beauregard

855 – 04-23-62 – Van Dorn Issues Call For Texas Regiments

856 – 04-24-62 – Little Rock Gets Report That Federals On Way

857 – 04-25-62 – Pike’s Supplies, Men Shift To Van Dorn’s Use

858 – 04-26-62 – 4 Or 5 Buildings Used As Emergency Hospitals

859 – 04-27-62 – North Takes Telegraph; News Reports Hampered

860 – 04-28-62 – Federal Spring Drive Brings Newspaper Crisis

861 – 04-29-62 – General Curtis Leaves Pea Ridge Area But Still Plans Major Attack On Little Rock

862 – 04-30-62 – Curtis’ Soldiers Find Batesville Is Delightful