Bøger udgivet af Butler Centre for Arkansas Studies

Presents a murder mystery unsolved for 160 years and an account of Arkansas in the decade following statehood. Opening with the senseless killing of a boy, this novel provides the quest for resolution that drives the characters - in their interwoven stories - in search of an answer to the identity of the killer.

Returning from a vacation trip to Mexico, Little Rock attorney Roger Glasgow were stopped at the border crossing. What followed was a long nightmare of political intrigue and subterfuge. Down and Dirty Down South is Glasgow's story of how he attempted to clear his name and also track down the people who had set him up for charges of smuggling illegal drugs into the United States.

In 1837 Representative Joseph J. Anthony stabs the speaker of the house to death during a debate about wolf pelts. In 1899 Hot Springs police shoot it out with the county sheriffs over control of illegal gambling. In 1974 President Richard Nixon resigns in part due to the outspokenness of Pine Bluff native Martha Mitchell. In this special print project of the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture, legendary cartoonist Ron Wolfe brings these and many other stories to life. Accompanied by selected entries from the encyclopedia, Wolfe s cartoons highlight the oddities and absurdities of our state s history. Seriously, you couldn t make up this stuff."

In the 1920s Genevieve Sadler left her home in California for what she thought would be a short visit to the Arkansas farm where her husband grew up. The visit lasted seven years, and Sadler's life was changed forever. Based on her long and detailed letters to her mother, she wrote this engaging memoir with its rich portrait of a small town and its inhabitants.