Author: Walter Lowrie Publisher: ISBN: 9780893085841 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 216
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When the Lousiana Purchase took place in 1803, only two territories were immediately formed - the Lousiana and Orleans Territories. An act of Congress in 1812 provided that the Territory hereto called Lousiana should be hereafter called Missouri. The southern portion of the Territory of Missouri became the Territory of Arkansas in 1819 and the northern portion became the state of Missouri in 1821. In these records, the original proprietor is named by whom the land is presently being claimed, reason for change of title (purchase or inheritance), nature and extent of claim, and if the claim was disallowed and the reason for disallowance.
Author: Roger Brooke Taney Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781017251265 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Washington University Libraries presents an online exhibit of documents regarding the Dred Scott case. American slave Dred Scott (1795?-1858) and his wife Harriet filed suit for their freedom in the Saint Louis Circuit Court in 1846. The U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1857 that the Scotts must remain slaves.
Author: S. Charles Bolton Publisher: University of Arkansas Press ISBN: 1557285195 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 225
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Often thought of as a primitive backwoods peopled by rough hunters and unsavory characters, early Arkansas was actually productive and dynamic in the same manner as other American territories and states. In this, the second volume in the Histories of Arkansas, S. Charles Bolton describes the emigration, mostly from other southern states, that carried Americans into Arkansas; the growth of an agricultural economy based on cotton, corn, and pork; the dominance of evangelical religion; and the way in which women coped with the frontier and made their own contributions toward its improvement. He closely compares the actual lifestyles of the settlers with the popularly held, uncomplimentary image. Separate chapters deal with slavery and the lives of the slaves and with Indian affairs, particularly the dispossession of the native Quapaws and the later-arriving Cherokees. Political chapters explore opportunism in Arkansas Territory, the rise of the Democratic Party under the control of the Sevier-Johnson group known as the Dynasty, and the forces that led Arkansas to secede from the Union. In addition, Arkansas’s role in the Mexican War and the California gold rush is treated in detail. In truth, geographic isolation and a rugged terrain did keep Arkansas underpopulated, and political violence and a disastrous experience in state banking tarnished its reputation, but the state still developed rapidly and successfully in this period, playing an important role on the southwestern frontier. Winner of the 1999 Booker Worthen Literary Prize
Author: Ericson Carolyn Publisher: ISBN: 9780911317114 Category : Arkansas Languages : en Pages : 92
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Short Biographical sketches of the early doctors in Nacogdoches County. The earliest recorded doctor to practice was a french man born 1730 and died 1834 at 104 years of age. He was in Nacogdoches by 1801. Many photos of the doctors are in the back of this book. Including a picture of the second hospital on North Street.
Author: Phillip W. McMullin Publisher: Arkansas Research ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 536
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An index to the American State Papers listing land grants and claims of early America between the years 1789-1837, listed by the individuals name.
Author: Louis Houck Publisher: ISBN: Category : Missouri Languages : en Pages : 440
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"Ends with the admission of Missouri as a state in 1821. Of all Missouri state histories, this one is cited most often by writers about the Santa Fe Trail. It contains a number of documents on early exploration and fur trade" (Rittenhouse).
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