While at a Little Rock banquet given in his honor, David "Davy" Crockett reportedly stated, "If I could rest anywhere it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grow nowhere else on the face of the universal earth but just around the backbone of North America."
Armchair historians in Garland County often look to the Garland County Historical Society s annual journal, The Record, to find articles on subjects they find interesting.
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