FROM RAZORBACKS TO DIAMONDS MARGUERITE LYON ILLUSTRATED THE
BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY Publishers INDIANAPOLIS NEW YORK Dedicated to
MY FRIENDS, RUTH WEBB AND VERA BECKER, WHO KEPT MY HOUSE CLEAN AND
FED MY HUSBAND, CATS AND DOG, WHILE I WENT MERRILY ABOUT ARKANSAS
DIGGING UP THE FACTS I HAVE PUT INTO THIS BOOK. I AM INDEBTED to
the Arkansas State Publicity Depart ment for all except one of the
photographs in this book and especially to Glenn A. Bud Green and
Dwight Nichols, who took the pictures. I also wish to thank the
Cassville Exeter Railway for their permission to reproduce the
picture o quot Old 345. quot MARGUERITE LYON CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE
I ARKANSAS TRAVELERS 13 II OUR TOWN, A BUT OF SWITZERLAND 19 III
OZARK RAILWAY, WITH 2 - MAN CREW 25 IV OZARK PLATEAU SWEET
BROILERLAND 30 V OZARK PLAYGROUND WOODS, WATER, FISH, FOOD .... 46
VI PEACHES WITH AND WITHOUT LEGS 56 VII RICELAND FIELDS OF GOLDEN
GRAIN 77 VIII A SLICK CHICK AND DIAMONDS 92 IX CROSSETT CHILD OF
THE FORESTS 108 X THE OUACHITAS, WITH A SUITE FOR A QUEEN ......
121 XI TEXARKANA WHERE ARKANSAS MEETS TEXAS 131 XII THE De Queen
Bee TELLS ALL 143 XIII WHERE WILDCATS MEAN WEALTH 152 XIV HELENA
ARKANSAS SOUTHERN BELLE 172 XV LAND OF COTTON, CONTESTS AND
CONTENTMENT . . . . 187 XVI OUR PAST Is A PRESENT DELIGHT 211 XVII
NEWTON COUNTY LAND OF UNSPOILED BEAUTY .... 220 XVIII HOT WATER AND
WATERMELONS 241 XIX WHAT No PINK COATS 257 XX SMART PEOPLE, THESE
ARKANSANS 268 XXI HURRAH FOR ARKANSAS 276 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS In
northern Arkansas, many a cascade waits for a person who would like
to boast of a waterfall in his own back yard Frontispiece FACING
PAGE Eureka Springs 267 streets wind about the mountains .... 30 A
steeply roofedshelter protects Crescent Spring 31 Old 345, of the
Cassville Exeter Railway, creeps upgrade ... 64 quot Coin quot
Harvey s amphitheater may be visited at Monte Ne . . 65 Arkansas
hills are still dotted with quiet little towns 96 The biggest
peaches are always on top. Scene during Peach Harvest 97 When the
fields in Riceland turn to gold, the grain is cut . . . 128 Rice is
the white gold of Arkansas Grand Prairie 129 Bauxite mining leaves
unsightly craters on Arkansas fields ... 160 Sunbonnets are still
the favorite headgear of women in the fields 161 Sinking an oil or
gas well in southern Arkansas may bring wealth 192 At the Camark
Pottery plant, an expert craftsman fashions grace ful vases 193 The
Territorial Restoration at Little Rock has preserved the beauty of
1820 224 Hot Springs is a beautiful fun-spot, with lakes and
mountain drives, 225 HURRAH FOR ARKANSAS rave lers quot WHOOOOP I m
the old original iron-jawed, brass mounted, copper-bellied
corpse-maker from the wilds of Arkansaw Look at me I m the man they
call Sudden Death and General Desola tion Sired by a hurricane, dam
d by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to
the small-pox on the mother s side. Look at me I take nineteen
alligators and a bar l of whiskey for breakfast when I m in robust
health, and a bushel of rattle-snakes and a dead body when I m
ailing. I split the everlasting rocks with my glance, and I squench
the thunder when I speak Whoo-oop Stand back and give me room
according to my strength Blood s my natural drink, and the wails of
the dying are music to my ear Cast your eye on me, gentle men and
lay low and hold your breath, for I m bout to turn myself loose
quot These words ranthrough my mind all one bright warm September
morning. I had heard Bud Green say them, with gestures, in a speech
not long before, and to the last syllable they had stayed with me.
Bud had put a lot of vim and vigor into his speech. He hadn t made
up the words. They were lines he had found in one of Mark Twain s
popular books, Life on the Mississippi, published in Boston in
1883. In the book the spouter of the words was a drunken bully whom
the author called quot Arkansaw quot Bud had felt sad that Mr...
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