The materials will be used in teaching Arkansas history, in accordance with the bill adopted in 1997 by the Arkansas legislature. Slight preference is given to work designed for junior high level. Applications must be received by December 31, 2000. Judging takes place in January, 2001. Applicants are notified in mid February.
Fellows take residency in the month of their choosing, within the year following their selection.
Judging the applications is a panel of four respected Arkansans, an historian, an educator, a librarian, and a writer. Hunting skills were kept up by prize-matches eight men being usually selected with eleven shots granted to each. The targets were small pieces of paper fastened to blacken ed boards and set up at about forty yards distance. A really good shot could hammer in a nail with his rifle.