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"When I Started A Courting," "The Old Fox," "Missouri Girls," "Southern Soldiers," and two untitled songs (words only) handwritten by Thomas Gibbs, Whiterock Church, Farmington, Arkansas. Also story of 1836 frontier life as told by Gibbs's great-grandmother.

Scope and Content Note The majority of the materials in this collection were created or collected by Juletta Ashby Jordan. Series one contains diaries kept by Juletta Jordan, "Said" Beck, and Addison Beck. Series two consists of letters written and received by Addison Beck, Juletta Jordan, and "Said" Beck. The literary works in series three were almost entirely written by Juletta Jordan. Series four, scrapbooks and scrapbook materials, includes an elocution notebook kept by Addie Beck, a teaching notebook probably...

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Letter dated at Pork Bayou, Arkansas County, Missouri Territory April 16, 1815, from frontier trader Luttig to his employer, St. Louis merchant Christian Wilt, regarding commercial and other affairs in Arkansas County. Persons to whom the letter relates include Toussaint Charbonneau, Auguste Chouteau, William Clark, and James Kennerly.

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The Halsey Prudden Correspondence contains biographical information about the Prudden family, and correspondence discussing Arkansas frontier life, and religion. Additional the collection contains two sets of transcribed correspondence; one created by Emma Carmen, Prudden's niece and one provided by Jane Bradford, Prudden's great-great niece.

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The collection contains research materials compiled by historian Lewis Wagner on buffalo hunter Napoleon Bonaparte "Arkansaw Jack" Greathouse. Materials are all photocopies, and include correspondence, ledger pages, photographs, and vital records.

Scope and Content Note The Hiram A. and Granville Whittington Materials contain correspondence between Hiram and his brother, Granville, back in Massachusetts revealing the conditions and his experience in the new Arkansas territory. Granville, a book binder by trade, preserved the letters in a bound volume. These letters that were neatly bound were found in Granville’s attic when his house in Mount Ida was torn down in 1913. The letters begin in 1824 when Hiram was writing from his home in Nantucket,...