Scope and Content Note Letters and related material received by the Arkansas lawyer, jurist, legislator, and politician Jesse Turner, who was a pioneer settler in Van Buren, Arkansas, pertaining to his law practice there and to political and other affairs in Arkansas, especially as regards railroad development, Reconstruction, efforts to secure a federal appointment for William Minor Quesenbury, the duel between Solon Borland and Benjamin J. Borden, the creation of Franklin County, and Archibald Yell's campaign...