The story of Arkansas, as told here, is a story of the dramatic impact
of a migrating southern and eastern culture upon a roaring western
frontier. Fletcher recognizes the fun and humor long associated with
Arkansas--comic anecdote, boisterous wit, tall tale, heavy satire--but
he also tells the hard historic facts, and the result is something new
in frontier epic.
Originally published in 1947.
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