Arkansas
Subtitle: a narrative history
By: by Jeannie M. Whayne ... [et al.] ; with a foreword by Willard B. Gatewood.
Contributors: Whayne, Jeannie M.
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Fayetteville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
Subjects: Arkansas -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-415) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Chapter One: Native American Prehistory 1; title: George Sabo III; title: Chapter Two: Spanish and French Explorations in the Mississippi Valley 20; title: George Sabo III; title: Chapter Three: New Traditions for a New World: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Native Americans in Arkansas 33; title: George Sabo III; title: Chapter Four: Indians and Immigrants in the Arkansas Colonial Era 46; title: Morris S. Arnold; title: Chapter Five: The Turbulent Path to Statehood: Arkansas Territory, 1803-1836 75; title: Jeannie M. Whayne; title: Chapter Six: "The Rights and Rank to Which We Are Entitled": Arkansas in the Early Statehood Period 109; title: Thomas A. DeBlack; title: Chapter Seven: Prosperity and Peril: Arkansas in the Late Antebellum Period 135; title: Thomas A. DeBlack; title: Chapter Eight: "Between the Hawk & Buzzard": The Civil War in Arkansas 166; title: Thomas A. DeBlack; title: Chapter Nine: "A Harnessed Revolution": Reconstruction in Arkansas 205; title: Thomas A. DeBlack; title: Chapter Ten: Prosperity Eluded: Era of Transition, 1880-1900 240; title: Jeannie M. Whayne; title: Chapter Eleven: Reasonable Progress: Limits of Progressive Reform 272; title: Jeannie M. Whayne; title: Chapter Twelve: Darker Forces on the Horizon: Natural Disasters and Great Depression 303; title: Jeannie M. Whayne; title: Chapter Thirteen: Turmoil and Change: Toward a New Arkansas 336; title: Jeannie M. Whayne; title: Chapter Fourteen: Dramatic Departures: Political, Demographic, and Economic Realignment 372; title: Jeannie M. Whayne.