This is an engrossing narrative account which shows how the civil war, theiv indian wars and western expansion were all interconnected. The 1860s were truly a time of National Conflict which involves not only the north and south but also the american west. Her primary Source Research involves letters and diaries, military or its oral histories and photographs adapted from that time and specifically about nine individuals who worked toward selfdetermination and the fight for control of the region. Some of these o people are fairy wellknown to us like frontiersman kit carson. Others like juanita and navajo weaver who we get to know their stories with a lofty history until now and under their stories to showw the imports of individual actions even the midst of a larger military conflict. The book earned a star review in the Library Journal and indeed its history that keeps the reader turning the pages. Megan nelson is aes writer and historian living in Lincoln Ridge has written about the
Last month s article left off with the Frisco Railroad purchasing the Oklahoma and Arkansas Railroad. With the purchase of the railroad, the Frisco added nine additional train depots, not including the one on the main line in Rogers.
ON SCENE: Our friend Chris Doty caught video of the fire. He tells us Friday he was coming home from a motorcycle ride and spotted smoke, then 3 minutes later
The highly anticipated Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad, constructed in the early 20th century, provided shipping and passenger railway access for the first time to isolated Ozark Mountain communities such as Eureka Springs, terminating in Helena on the Arkansas Delta. But as historian Kenneth Barnes reveals, the promising railway plagued by infrastructure failures, labor strikes and deadly anti-union mob violence was abandoned.
On Jan. 15, 1923, after a bitter 2-year strike on the Missouri & North Arkansas Railroad, an angry mob assembled in Harrison, the railway s headquarters. The vigilantes hanged one striker, publicly stripped and whipped others and ran the remaining strikers out of Arkansas. One of the longest railroad strikes in American history, it was the only one ended by a mob action.