Author: Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1681621614
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
The history of the community and people of Conway County, Arkansas.
Conway County Heritage
Author: Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1681621614
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
The history of the community and people of Conway County, Arkansas.
Bits of Conway County Heritage
Author: Conway County
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780935765038
Category : Conway County (Ark.)
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Historical Reminiscenses and Biographical Memoirs of Conway County, Arkansas
Author: The History of Farm Tenancey in Conway County in the 1930 's
Author: Rebecca Anne MallettConway
Author: Ann NewmanPublisher: Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN: 9781531601515
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
From a small settlement surrounding a railroad depot spranga community that is today one of Arkansas's most vibrant commercial, educational, and governmental resources. The early railroad and cotton booms brought commerce and culture to a once pastoral frontier landscape. Drawn from the Faulkner County Historical Society Collection and the University of Central Arkansas Archives, this collection of vintage images brings the city's unique heritage to life as never before. The story of Conway was borne from the vision of Colonel Asa Peter Robinson, known as the "Father of Conway," and is as fascinating as the lives of its diverse inhabitants. This volume explores the successes of early entrepreneurs like Max Frauenthal, Jo Frauenthal, and Leo Schwartz, who helped lay the foundation for a flourishing economic prosperity. Rare glimpses of horse racing, the historic WACS program, and early downtown businesses are all here for your discovery.
Historical Reminiscences and Biographical Memoirs of Conway County, Arkansas
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conway County (Ark.)
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Who Killed John Clayton?
Author: Kenneth C. BarnesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In 1888 a group of armed and masked Democrats stole a ballot box from a small town in Conway County, Arkansas. The box contained most of the county's black Republican votes, thereby assuring defeat for candidate John Clayton in a close race for the U.S. Congress. Days after he announced he would contest the election, a volley of buckshot ripped through Clayton's hotel window, killing him instantly. Thus began a yet-to-be-solved, century-old mystery. More than a description of this particular event, however, Who Killed John Clayton? traces patterns of political violence in this section of the South over a three-decade period. Using vivid courtroom-type detail, Barnes describes how violence was used to define and control the political system in the post-Reconstruction South and how this system in turn produced Jim Crow. Although white Unionists and freed blacks had joined under the banner of the Republican Party and gained the upper hand during Reconstruction, during these last decades of the nineteenth century conservative elites, first organized as the Ku Klux Klan and then as the revived Democratic Party, regained power--via such tactics as murdering political opponents, lynching blacks, and defrauding elections. This important recounting of the struggle over political power will engage those interested in Southern and American history.
Historic homes of Conway
Author: Pioneers and Makers of Arkansas
Author: Josiah Hazen ShinnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arkansas
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description