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Thomas S. Drew

Trail of Tears: A History from Beginning to End

Discover the remarkable history of the Trail of Tears… In the early 1800s, the Five Civilized Tribes—the Cherokee, Seminole, Chickasaw, Muscogee-Creek, and Choctaw—were living in lands allocated to them by the United States government in present-day Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, … Continue reading

Train Depot Print

Print of the old depot by local photographer Rob Samons.

Up South In The Ozarks Dispatches from the Margins

The Ozarks is a place that defies easy categorization. Sprawling across much of Missouri and Arkansas and smaller parts of Oklahoma and Kansas, it is caught on the margins of America’s larger cultural regions: part southern, part midwestern, and maybe … Continue reading

Walk with D. I. G. N. I. T. Y.

by Macy Butler

When the Mississippi Ran Backwards by Jay Feldman: Paperback; 320 pages, English

[Simon & Schuster] From Jay Feldmen comes an enlightening work about how the most powerful earthquakes in the history of America united the Indians in one last desperate rebellion, reversed the Mississippi River, revealed a seamy murder in the Jefferson … Continue reading

Where Did The Cotton Go? / Macy V. Butler

Arkansas' First Black Game Warden

With Fire and Sword