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AN ARKANSAS LOT
(5) Five PIECES
"WITH THIS WE CHALLENGE: AN EPITOME OF ARKANSAS"
ARRANGED BY AVANTUS GREEN
"TAKE HEED! THIS STRANGE VARMINT FOUND SNEAKING INTO AR. ACROSS OUR BORDER" CARTOON DEPICTS LYNCHING AND DIRECTION SIGN POINTING TO TENNESSEE.
PAPERBACK BOOK
SATIRE OF THE DAY
NOVELTY
ILLUSTRATED BY H.A. THOMAS JR
COPYRIGHT 1945
LITTLE ROCK AR
LITHO PRINT IN THE USA
62 PAGE BOOKLET FULL OF SEPIA TONE PICTURES
ANECDOTES, STORIES, AND LEGENDS
DEDICATED TO THE ARKANSANS OF WWII
BOTANICAL - HISTORICAL - ALMANAC
IS USED IN FAIR CONDITION
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NETSUKE (?) FETISH
BOAR - WILD PIG
EFFIGY
HAND CARVED OF BONE
LONG LEGGED PIG WITH BOLD TUSKS
AND POINTED EARS.
MEASURES ABOUT 2.1/4" BY 2.3/4"
OLD
ONE OF A KIND / OOAK
AO / ARTIST ORIGINAL
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PEWTER PIG
MINIATURE / MINI
COPYRIGHT MURRAY
LESS THAN 1" SQUARE
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RPPC
REAL PHOTO POSTCARD
FULL COLOR IMAGE
"SPRING PLANTIN' TIME"
HILLBILLY AND HIS WIFE
SHE IS DRIVING THE MULES PLOWING
HE IS SITTING UNDER THE SHADE
DRINKING HIS WHITE LIGHTIN'
AND SMOKING HIS CORN COB PIPE.
'GONNA BE A GOOD CROP THIS YEAR, EH MA?'
PHOTO BY DEPEW
SP-141
DEXTER PRESS INC
NEW YORK, NY
PUBLICATED BY HOLIDAY PRODUCTIONS
SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI (MO)
CROPPED EDGES
ABOUT 6"x4"
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TWO-BIT
FRESH ROASTED
$
PEABERRY BLEND
FLAVOR AND AROMA RETAINED BY LAMOFILM LINER
1 1/4 POUND NET
ROASTED AND PACKED BY
PLUNKETT JARRELL GROCER
LITTLE ROCK, ARK (AR)
PAPER EPHEMERA
PERISHABLE
RARE / HTF / HARD TO FIND
CIRCA 1950
IN FINE TO VERY FINE CONDITION
BELIEVE IT WAS ONLY STORED AND NEVER USED
MEASURES ABOUT 5" BY 10" FLAT
TAKE ONE OR ALL
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FYI
Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares a border with six states (clockwise: N: Missouri; E: Tennessee, Mississippi; S: Louisiana; W: Texas, Oklahoma) with its eastern border largely defined by the Mississippi River. Its diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozarks and the Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U.S. Interior Highlands, to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River. The capital and most populous city is Little Rock, located in the central portion of the state.
Toponym
The name "Arkansas" derives from the same root as the name for the state of Kansas. The Kansas tribe of Native Americans are closely associated with the Sioux tribes of the Great Plains. The word "Arkansas" itself is a French pronunciation ("Arcansas") of a Quapaw (a related "Kaw" tribe) word "akakaze" meaning "land of downriver people" or the Sioux word "Akakaze" meaning "people of the south wind". The pronunciation of Arkansas was made official by an act of the state legislature in 1881, after a dispute between the two U.S. Senators from Arkansas. One wanted to pronounce the name /?r'kænz?s/ ar-kan-z?s and the other wanted /'?rk?ns??/ ar-k?n-saw.
In 2007, the state legislature officially declared the possessive form of the state's name to be Arkansas's.
The first European to reach Arkansas was the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, a veteran of Pizarro's conquest of Peru who died near Lake Village on the Mississippi River in 1542 after almost a year traversing the southern part of the state in search of gold and a passage to China. Arkansas is one of several U.S. states formed from the territory purchased from Napoleon Bonaparte in the Louisiana Purchase. The early Spanish or French explorers of the state gave it its name, which is probably a phonetic spelling of the Illinois tribe's name for the Quapaw people, who lived downriver from them. Other Native American tribes who lived in Arkansas before moving west were the Cherokee, Quapaw, Caddo, and Osage nations. In their forced move westward (under U.S. Indian removal policies), the Five Civilized Tribes inhabited Arkansas during its territorial period.
The Territory of Arkansas was organized on July 4, 1819. On June 15, 1836, the State of Arkansas was admitted to the Union as the 25th state and the 13th slave state. Planters settled in the Delta to cultivate cotton; this was the area of the state where most enslaved African Americans were held. Other areas had more subsistence farmers and mixed farming.
Arkansas played a key role in aiding Texas in its war for independence from Mexico; it sent troops and materials to Texas to help fight the war. The proximity of the city of Washington to the Texas border involved the town in the Texas Revolution of 1835–36. Some evidence suggests Sam Houston and his compatriots planned the revolt in a tavern at Washington in 1834. When the fighting began, a stream of volunteers from Arkansas and the southeastern states flowed through the town toward the Texas battle fields.
When the Mexican-American War began in 1846, Washington became a rendezvous for volunteer troops. Governor Thomas S. Drew issued a proclamation calling on the state to furnish one regiment of cavalry and one battalion of infantry to join the United States Army. Ten companies of men assembled here, where they were formed into the first Regiment of Arkansas Cavalry.
The state developed a cotton culture in the east in lands of the Mississippi Delta. This was where enslaved labor was used most extensively, as planters brought with them or imported slaves from the Upper South. On the eve of the Civil War in 1860, enslaved African Americans numbered 111,115 people, just over 25% of the state's population.
Arkansas refused to join the Confederate States of America until after United States President Abraham Lincoln called for troops to respond to the Confederate attack upon Fort Sumter, South Carolina. The State of Arkansas declared its secession from the Union on May 6, 1861. While not often cited in historical accounts, the state was the scene of numerous small-scale battles during the American Civil War. Arkansans of note who contributed to the Civil War included Confederate Major General Patrick Cleburne. Considered by many to be one of the most brilliant Confederate division commanders of the war, Cleburne was often referred to as "The Stonewall of the West." Also of note was Major General Thomas C. Hindman. A former United States Representative, Hindman commanded Confederate forces at the Battle of Cane Hill and Battle of Prairie Grove.
Under the Military Reconstruction Act, Congress restored Arkansas to the Union in June 1868. The Reconstruction legislature established universal male suffrage while disenfranchising former Confederates (mostly Democrats), a public education system, and other general issues to improve the state and help more of the population. The state came under almost exclusive control of Radical Republicans, (those who emigrated from the North being derided as "carpetbaggers" by ex-Confederates based on allegations of corruption), led by newly elected Governor Powell Clayton, marking a time of great upheaval and racial violence in the state between state militia and the Ku Klux Klan.
In 1874, the Brooks-Baxter War, a political struggle between factions of the Republican Party shook Little Rock and the state governorship. It was settled only when President Ulysses S. Grant ordered Joseph Brooks to disperse his militant supporters.
Following the Brooks-Baxter War, a new state constitution was ratified re-enfranchising former Confederates.
In 1881, the Arkansas state legislature enacted a bill that adopted an official pronunciation of the state's name, to combat a controversy then simmering. (See Law and Government below.)
After Reconstruction, the state began to receive more immigrants and migrants. Chinese, Italian, and Syrian men were recruited for farm labor in the developing Delta region. None of these nationalities stayed long at farm labor; the Chinese especially quickly became small merchants in towns around the Delta. Some early 20th century immigration included people from eastern Europe. Together, these immigrants made the Delta more diverse than the rest of the state. In the same years, some black migrants moved into the area because of opportunities to develop the bottomlands and own their own property. Many Chinese became such successful merchants in small towns that they were able to educate their children at college.
Construction of railroads enabled more farmers to get their products to market. It also brought new development into different parts of the state, including the Ozarks, where some areas were developed as resorts. In a few years at the end of the 19th century, for instance, Eureka Springs in Carroll County grew to 10,000 people, rapidly becoming a tourist destination and the fourth largest city of the state. It featured newly constructed, elegant resort hotels and spas planned around its natural springs, considered to have healthful properties. The town's attractions included horse racing and other entertainment. It appealed to a wide variety of classes, becoming almost as popular as Hot Springs.
The Razorbacks, also known as the Hogs, are the names of college sports teams at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The term Arkansas Razorbacks properly applies to any of the sports teams (men or women) at the university. The Razorbacks take their name from the feral pig of the same name. The univesity of Arkansas student body voted to change the name of the school mascot (originally the Cardinals) in 1910 to the Arkansas Razorbacks. Since the razorbacks name was already in use by the Texarkana Arkansas High School, the University agreed to 'use' the Razorback hogs as their mascot; In turn, giving Arkansas High School used athletic equipment from the university. The Arkansas Razorbacks are the only major sports team in the US with a porcine nickname, though the Texas A&M–Kingsville Javelinas play in Division II.
The University of Arkansas currently fields 19 total varsity teams (8 men's and 11 women's) in 13 sports. The 7 men's varsity sports includes baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, tennis, track and field; the 11 women's varsity sports includes basketball, cross country, golf, gymnastics, soccer, indoor track, swimming and diving, outdoor track, tennis, softball and volleyball. The Arkansas Razorbacks compete in the NCAA's Division I (I FBS in football) and is currently a member of the Southeastern Conference (Western Division).
