"I am impressed with how much of my grandparents life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships. Contrary to the myth, the West was not made entirely by pioneers who had thrown everything away but an ax and a gun."
Little Rock, circa 1940: In the distance is seen the Albert Pike Hotel and beside it Second Baptist Church, today the site of a playground for a newer church. In the foreground is the Little Rock Boys Club. The club had occupied Eighth and Scott streets since 1925, but the club's first building burned in 1929. It was rebuilt in 1930. Today it serves as an office building.