Author: John Gaskins

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-05

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9781333474584

Excerpt from Life and Adventures of John Gaskins: In the Early History of Northwest Arkansas I was there every day, watching and wondering. The people crowded around the Basin spring (that being the only spring at first, though in a short time others were discovered) dipping up the water that poured down over the rock into the little basin, one waiting for another: I would watch for hours, wondering how it could be that I had used the water so long and now to see the crowds gathering there for the cure of all kinds of diseases. Many who were not able to walk would use the water and be able in two or three weeks to climb the mountains, at that time steep and rugged and without roads. Wagons would turn over in try ing to drive too near the springs. Once on the bench of the mountains they would take off the wheels, and let the axles rest on the ground. Then tents and afterwards houses were erected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.