Arkansas Territorial Stories
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Tales of the Arkansas Frontier by Jon David Cash is for both students of history and those who are simply curious about the past. Cash’s accessible style of writing and storytelling introduces the reader to the names and amazing stories behind well-known cities and counties in Arkansas.
Jon David Cash, a native of Crossett in southeastern Arkansas, received bachelor’s degrees in History and Political Science and a Master’s degree in History from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville before earning his PhD in American History at the University of Oregon. He taught at a half-dozen colleges or universities in Oregon, Arkansas, and Georgia, and his historical articles have appeared in California History: Quarterly Magazine of the California Historical Society; Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies, and in the journals of both historical societies in Missouri, Missouri Historical Review and Gateway Heritage. He died at his home in Crossett in 2022 shortly after completing this book for publication. “Jon David Cash has produced an engaging and highly readable account of Arkansas’s early history, deftly moving from the Quapaws’ interactions with European colonial powers to important nineteenth-century political events and some leading personalities who participated in them.” —Morris S. Arnold, author of Colonial Arkansas: A Social and Cultural History, 1686-1804 and The Rumble of a Different Drum: The Quapaws and Old World Newcomers, 1673-1804 “Cash renders an excellent account of how one state and its cast of characters, some fascinating and some downright mean, helped shape the early United States. He is a gifted historian and a delightful storyteller as well.” --Rod Lorenzen, journalist and former director of Butler Center Publishing “Cash presents a “vibrant living enigma of colorful characters” that never fails to illuminate and entertain.” --Thomas Daniel Knight, Professor of American History at the University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley, and editor of Contemners and Serpents: The James Wilson Family Civil War Correspondence |
Editor Frank Thurmond holds graduate degrees in English from Southern Methodist University and Oxford University. His books include Before I Sleep: A Memoir of Travel and Reconciliation (2012, Et Alia Press), Ring of Five: A Novella and Four Stories (2015, Et Alia Press), Remembrance and Other Poems (2022, Braddock Avenue Books), and Lottie Denno: A Novel of the Civil War and the American Southwest (2024, Parkhurst Brothers Publishers).
Paperback • $17.95 • 978-1-62491-211-5
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