ARKANSAS POST The Arkansas Post Story

1 Burney B. McClurkan, "Fort Desha, the Location of Arkansas Post, ca. 1735-1750," pp. 32-39, In Stanley South, The Conference on Historic Sites Archeology Papers, Vol. 6, Part 2, Sections 1 and 2 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1971).

2 Morris S. Arnold, "The Relocation of Arkansas Post to Ecores Rouges in 1779," Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 42 (winter 1983), 320-21. Morris S. Arnold, Unequal Laws Unto a Savage Race: European Legal Traditions in Arkansas, 1686-1836 (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1985).

3 Ray H. Mattison, "Report on the Historical Investigations of Arkansas Post, Arkansas" (Typed manuscript on file at Arkansas Post National Memorial, 1957), p. 74.

4 Ibid., p. 78.

5 Ibid.

6 Henri de Tonty, "Memoir Sent in 1693, on the Discovery of the Mississippi and the Neighboring Nations by M. De La Salle from the Year 1678 to the Time of his Death, and by the Sieur De Tonty to the Year 1691," p. 98, In Thomas Falconer, On the Discovery of the Mississippi and on the South-Western, Oregon, and North-Western Boundary of the United States (Austin, Tx.: Shoal Creek Publishers, 1975).

7 Norman W. Caldwell, "Tonty and the Beginning of Arkansas Post?" Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 8 (Autumn 1949), 195, 201.

8 Stanley Faye, "Arkansas Post of Louisiana: French Domination," Louisiana Historical Quarterly, 26 (July 1943), 635. Phillip Phillips, James A. Ford and James B. Griffin, Archeological Survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, 1940-1947 (Cambridge), pp. 414-15.

9 Ralph A. Smith, "Exploration of the Arkansas River by Benard De La Harpe, 1721-1722," Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 10 (Winter 1951), 342.

10 Ibid., p. 349.

11 Arnold, Unequal Laws, Fig. 3.

12 Dr. and Mrs. T.L. Hodges, "Possibilities for the Archaeologist and Historian in Eastern Arkansas," Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 2 (June 1943), 149.

13 Mattison, p. 17.

14 Ibid., p. 82.

15 Smith, p. 349.

16 Mattison, pp. 17-18.

17 Ibid.

18 Ibid., p. 22.

19 Arnold, "Relocation of Arkansas Post," p. 4.

20 Mattison, p. 22.

21 Ibid.

22 W. David Baird, The Quapaw Indians, a History of the Downstream People (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980), p. 34.

23 Faye, p. 634. Mattison, p. 85.

24 Mattison, pp. 99-113. Arnold, p. 322, n. 3.

25 Mattison, p. 88.

26 Ibid., p. 33.

27 Arnold, pp. 320-21.

28 McClurkan, pp. 32-39.

29 William A. Westbury, Archeological Assessment, Arkansas Post National Memorial (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Archeology Program, 1976).

30 Gilbert C. Din, "Spanish Fort on the Arkansas, 1763-1803," Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 42 (Autumn 1983), 5.

31 Ibid., pp. 283-84.

32 Ibid.

33 Mattison, p. 96.

34 Ibid., p. 97.

35 Ibid., p. 126.

36 Edwin C. Bearss and Lenard E. Brown, Arkansas Post National Memorial: Structural History, Post of Arkansas, 1804-1862, and Civil War Troop Movement Maps, January 1863 (Washington D.C., Department of the Interior, National Park Service 1971) p. 18.

37 Baird, pp. 51-53.

38 Bearss and Brown, p. 18.

39 Westbury, p. 51.

40 Edwin C. Bearss, Chief Historian, National Park Service. Personal communication.