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...capital of the Arkansas Territory in June 1821. A boisterous village at the crossing of two frontier arteries -the Arkansas River and the Great Southwest Trail-Little Rock attracted settlers and travelers such as Davy Crockett, who said in 1834: "If I could rest anywhere it would be in Arkansaw 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...
Thomas Bangs Thorpe on the charms of Arkansas: "Why, stranger, just breathe Arkansaw air and it will make you snort like a horse." (Mosquitoes? "Well, stranger . . . it is a fact that they are rather enormous. [But] if they are large, Arkansaw is large, her varments are large, her rivers are large. A small mosquito would be of no more use in Arkansaw than preaching in a cane-brake...
Barnside humor like this made On a Slow Train Through Arkansaw a best-seller on trains and newsstands in the early 1900s. The two-bit joke book was the making of Author Thomas W. Jackson and the unmaking of Arkansas. No matter how the State progressed, no matter how its cities grew, it was always backwoods to the rest of the U.S. Arkansans developed a mass inferiority complex unique in U.S. history...
...square-dance album, Swing Your Partner ($3.25), had sold nearly 2,000 sets fortnight after publication. Columbia had followed with Square Dances ($2.50). Decca, which had already issued single square-dance discs, humped itself to get out albums. The strains of Hull's Victory, Portland Fancy, Buffalo Girl, Arkansaw Traveler were loud in the land...
...Archibald T. Davison '06, former conductor of the Glee Club; "O Light Everlasting" (Cantata 34) by Bach; "Dirge for Two Veterans" by Holst; From the Realm of Souls Departed" by Gluck; "Brennan on the Moor" a Somerset folk song; "Hunt the Wren" an Isle of Man folk song; "The Arkansaw Traveller" an American frontier song" "Spanish Ladies" as English folk song; and "Coronation Scene" from "Boris Godounov" by Moussorgsky...