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Gambling -- Arkansas

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Frank L. Borland Reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: MS B64
Scope and Content Note

Borland's typewritten reminiscence, 1935, together with related clipping and memorandum, 1884 and 1922, pertaining to gamblers and gambling in Hot Springs, Arkansas, 1878-1900, and especially to the "Flynn-Doran feud" and the shooting of Frank Flynn in 1884.

Dates: 1884; 1922; 1935

Orval Eugene Faubus Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS F27 301 FAUBUS
Scope and Content Note Correspondence, memoranda, reports, speeches, diary, lists, notes, petitions, certificates, clippings, literary manuscripts, legislative bills, scrapbooks, sound recordings, motion picture film, financial, legal, military, and other records created, received, or collected by Faubus (1910-1978) or by staff members of the Arkansas gubernatorial office (1955-1967). Records pertain, for the most part, to the operations (1955-1967) of Arkansas state constitutional and other offices,...
Dates: 1910-1978; Majority of material found within 1939-1974

Bert Hanor Sketch

 Collection
Identifier: MC 506
Scope and Content Note

Pen and ink illustration by Bert Hanor of the 1884 gambling feud between S.A. Doran and Frank Flynn in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The drawing was printed in the 1973 issue of The Record, published by the Hot Springs, Garland County Historical Society.

Dates: circa 1973

Oaklawn Park Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2019
Content Description

Press release draft, white paper, programs, brochures, and other materials related to Oaklawn Park, a thoroughbred race track in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Dates: circa 1941-1996