The Arkansas Post of Louisiana
The Arkansas Post of Louisiana

Author: Morris S. Arnold

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 1682260348

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Arkansas Post, the first European settlement in what would become Jefferson’s Louisiana, had an important mission as the only settlement between Natchez and the Illinois Country, a stretch of more than eight hundred miles along the Mississippi River. The Post was a stopping point for shelter and supplies for those travelling by boat or land, and it was of strategic importance as well, as it nurtured and sustained a crucial alliance with the Quapaw Indians, the only tribe that occupied the region. The Arkansas Post of Louisiana covers the most essential aspects of the Post’s history, including the nature of the European population, their social life, the economy, the architecture, and the political and military events that reflected and shaped the Post’s mission. Beautifully illustrated with maps, portraits, lithographs, photographs, documents, and superb examples of Quapaw hide paintings, The Arkansas Post of Louisiana is a perfect introduction to this fascinating place at the confluence of the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers, a place that served as a multicultural gathering spot, and became a seminal part of the history of Arkansas and the nation.

Ouachita and Black Rivers Navigation Charts: Ouachita and Black Rivers, Camden, Arkansas to Red River, Louisiana
Ouachita and Black Rivers Navigation Charts: Ouachita and Black Rivers, Camden, Arkansas to Red River, Louisiana

Author: Army Corps of Engineers (U S )

Publisher: Department of the Army

Published: 2016-11-18

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780160935763

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2016 reprint of this illustrated 2006 Navigatinal chart-- back by popular demand -- This paper navigational chart book covers the Ouachita and Black Rivers Camden, Arkansas to Red River, Louisiana Mile 332 to Mile 0 P.P.R.M. It was originally published in 2006, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers paper navigational chart books are published to benefit both the professional and recreational maritime community. These chart books are spiral bound with sturdy covers and are designed for heavy service on any bridge. Mariners will find not only navigational charts within the pages of this chart book, but critical navigational safety information such as information pertaining to buoys, vertical clearances under bridges, warning to pleasure boaters and fisherman to include restricted and danger area boundaries; locks and dams; signals, lockage of tows; moorings and more. Well defined chart legends, and multiple indices make this chart book more than a simple navigational tool. The U.S Coast Guard requires that commercial vessels operating in the waters represented within the pages of this chart book maintain on-board "navigation charts or maps appropriate to the area of operation..." (46 CFR Subchapter M). This chart book fulfills that requirement. However, it is incumbent on mariners to manually update these products and U.S. Coast Guard Notice to Mariners for changes and notices impacting these waters. Related products: Navigational Rules and rEgulations Handbook 2014 can be found here:https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/050-012-00517-6 USACE Navigational Charts collection is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/transportation-navigation/almanacs-navigation-guides/usace-navigational-charts Navigation by Water resources collection is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/transportation-navigation/almanacs-navigation-guides/navigation-water Other products produced by United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/919

My Louisiana Sky
My Louisiana Sky

Author: Kimberly Willis Holt

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

Published: 2011-02-15

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 142999102X

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Tiger Ann Parker wants nothing more than to get out of the rural town of Saitter, Louisiana--far away from her mentally disabled mother, her "slow" father who can't read an electric bill, and her classmates who taunt her. So when Aunt Dorie Kay asks Tiger to sp the summer with her in Baton Rouge, Tiger can't wait to go. But before she leaves, the sudden revelation of a dark family secret prompts Tiger to make a decision that will ultimately change her life. Set in the South in the late 1950s, this coming-of-age novel explores a twelve-year-old girl's struggle to accept her grandmother's death, her mentally deficient parents, and the changing world around her. It is a novel filled with beautiful language and unforgettable characters, and the importance of family and home. My Louisiana Sky is a 1998 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award Honor Book for Fiction.

The Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase

Author: Thomas Fleming

Publisher: Wiley

Published: 2003-10-07

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0471484407

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From The Louisiana Purchase Like many other major events in world history, the Louisiana Purchase is a fascinating mix of destiny and individual energy and creativity. . . . Thomas Jefferson would have been less than human had he not claimed a major share of the credit. In a private letter . . . the president, reviving a favorite metaphor, said he "very early saw" Louisiana was a "speck" that could turn into a "tornado." He added that the public never knew how near "this catastrophe was." But he decided to calm the hotheads of the west and "endure" Napoleon's aggression, betting that a war with England would force Bonaparte to sell. This policy "saved us from the storm." Omitted almost entirely from this account is the melodrama of the purchase, so crowded with "what ifs" that might have changed the outcome-and the history of the world. The reports of the Lewis and Clark expedition . . . electrified the nation with their descriptions of a region of broad rivers and rich soil, of immense herds of buffalo and other game, of grassy prairies seemingly as illimitable as the ocean. . . . From the Louisiana Purchase would come, in future decades, the states of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and large portions of what is now North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Minnesota, Colorado, and Louisiana. For the immediate future, the purchase, by doubling the size of the United States, transformed it from a minor to a major world power. The emboldened Americans soon absorbed West and East Florida and fought mighty England to a bloody stalemate in the War of 1812. Looking westward, the orators of the 1840s who preached the "Manifest Destiny" of the United States to preside from sea to shining sea based their oratorical logic on the Louisiana Purchase. TURNING POINTS features preeminent writers offering fresh, personal perspectives on the defining events of our time.

The South Central States
The South Central States

Author: Lawrence Goodwyn

Publisher:

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13:

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Pictures and text depict the diversified population, geography, history, industries, and Western folklore of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. Mapped tours, museums, local events, wildlife, and statistics are included in the appendix.

Arkansas, 1800-1860
Arkansas, 1800-1860

Author: S. Charles Bolton

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Published: 1998-09-01

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1557285195

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Often thought of as a primitive backwoods peopled by rough hunters and unsavory characters, early Arkansas was actually productive and dynamic in the same manner as other American territories and states. In this, the second volume in the Histories of Arkansas, S. Charles Bolton describes the emigration, mostly from other southern states, that carried Americans into Arkansas; the growth of an agricultural economy based on cotton, corn, and pork; the dominance of evangelical religion; and the way in which women coped with the frontier and made their own contributions toward its improvement. He closely compares the actual lifestyles of the settlers with the popularly held, uncomplimentary image. Separate chapters deal with slavery and the lives of the slaves and with Indian affairs, particularly the dispossession of the native Quapaws and the later-arriving Cherokees. Political chapters explore opportunism in Arkansas Territory, the rise of the Democratic Party under the control of the Sevier-Johnson group known as the Dynasty, and the forces that led Arkansas to secede from the Union. In addition, Arkansas’s role in the Mexican War and the California gold rush is treated in detail. In truth, geographic isolation and a rugged terrain did keep Arkansas underpopulated, and political violence and a disastrous experience in state banking tarnished its reputation, but the state still developed rapidly and successfully in this period, playing an important role on the southwestern frontier. Winner of the 1999 Booker Worthen Literary Prize

Colonial Arkansas, 1686-1804
Colonial Arkansas, 1686-1804

Author: Morris S. Arnold

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Published: 1993-12-01

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1610751051

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"Meticulously researched, highly readable, profusely illustrated, and broadly focused . . . unquestionably the most significant work ever written about the Arkansas Post." --Carl Brasseaux