xiii, 447 pages : 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-415) and index

Foreword / Willard B. Gatewood -- Ch. 1. Native American Prehistory / George Sabo III -- Ch. 2. Spanish and French Explorations in the Mississippi Valley / George Sabo III -- Ch. 3. New Traditions for a New World: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Native Americans in Arkansas / George Sabo III -- Ch. 4. Indians and Immigrants in the Arkansas Colonial Era / Morris S. Arnold -- Ch. 5. The Turbulent Path to Statehood: Arkansas Territory, 1803-1836 / Jeannie M. Whayne -- Ch. 6. "The Rights and Rank to Which We Are Entitled": Arkansas in the Early Statehood Period / Thomas A. DeBlack -- Ch. 7. Prosperity and Peril: Arkansas in the Late Antebellum Period / Thomas A. DeBlack -- Ch. 8. "Between the Hawk & Buzzard": The Civil War in Arkansas / Thomas A. DeBlack -- Ch. 9. "A Harnessed Revolution": Reconstruction in Arkansas / Thomas A. DeBlack -- Ch. 10. Prosperity Eluded: Era of Transition, 1880-1900 / Jeannie M. Whayne -- Ch. 11. Reasonable Progress: Limits of Progressive Reform / Jeannie M. Whayne -- Ch. 12. Darker Forces on the Horizon: Natural Disasters and Great Depression / Jeannie M. Whayne -- Ch. 13. Turmoil and Change: Toward a New Arkansas / Jeannie M. Whayne -- Ch. 14. Dramatic Departures: Political, Demographic, and Economic Realignment / Jeannie M. Whayne

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