Book NotesSource: The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 3 (Autumn, 1990), pp. 284-287Published by: Arkansas Historical AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40030803 .

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Book Notes

The Montgomery County Historical Society has published Mont-

gomery County: Our Heritage, Volume I, and Volume II is in progress. For more information write to the society at Post Office Box 520, Mt. Ida, Arkansas 71957. The society also publishes a newsletter, The Crystal.

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Three books on Arkansas can be ordered from Curtis Media Corpora- tion, 1931 Market Center Boulevard, Suite 105, Dallas, Texas 75207, tele-

phone (214) 651-1025. They are: Reflections of Ashley County, compiled by Robert and M. Imogene Carpenter (1987, 446 pages). There is a sur- name index, a reprint of The History of Ashley County by Y. A. Eth-

ridge (1959), and a collection of old Ashley County recipes. The cost is $57.50.

History of Lee County, Arkansas, compiled by the Lee County Ses-

quicentennial Committee (1987, 383 pages). The book contains a sur- name index, and Fred Plummer's candid photographs of Lee County faces. The cost is $55.

History of Pol\ County, Arkansas, compiled by the Mena Star (1988, 298 pages). Special features are a surname index and "Highlights of

History." For the cost of this book call toll free 1-800-798-4567. All three books are 9x12 inches in size and each requires a handling

and postage charge of $4.50. # # #

Faulkner County, Arkansas, Census of Cemeteries, published by the Faulkner County Historical Society is a census, as of December 31, 1987, of 110 active, inactive, and abandoned cemeteries in Faulkner County and ten cemeteries in adjoining counties less than one-half mile from the

county line. Some of the features of this census are names of some 24,500 indi-

viduals, arranged alphabetically by cemetery; individual names; dates of birth and death, and other identifying information as taken from grave- stones; seventy-six photographs and four pen-and-ink drawings made

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especially for this publication; five maps showing the location of the

cemeteries, made especially for the book by the Department of Geog- raphy, University of Central Arkansas; and a complete index of all individual names. There are 916 pages in a 6x9 hard cover book. The

price is $49.50 plus $3.50 for shipping and handling, if ordered before

September 15, 1990; after that date it is $55, plus $3.50 shipping. These

prices include sales tax. Order from the Faulkner County Historical

Society, Post Office Box 731, Conway, Arkansas 72032. # # #

Eagle Press announces the publication of two books of interest to Arkansans. They are:

Ran\s of Honor: A Regimental History of the Eleventh Arkansas Infantry Regiment and Poe's Cavalry Battalion, C.S.A., 1861-1865, by Anthony C. Rushing (1990, 216 pages). This book has five illustrations, twelve maps, a complete roster by companies for both units, end notes, bibliography, and index. The Eleventh Arkansas was formed in July 1861. They were captured early in the war with the fall of Island No. 10. After their exchange in September 1862 the regiment was reorganized in Jackson, Mississippi, and they spent the remainder of the war fighting in Mississippi and Louisiana. The Eleventh was made up of companies from Saline, Ouachita, Hot Spring, Columbia, and Hempstead counties. The cost is $33, plus shipping cost of $1.75, Arkansas residents add 4 per- cent sales tax, Pulaski County residents, add 6 percent.

The other book from this press is a reprint of the 1966 book by Edwin C. Bearss, chief historian of the National Park Service, entitled, Steele's Retreat from Camden and the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry. This is an in-

depth documentation of Steele's part in the ill-fated Red River campaign, and has been out of print for many years. This book contains 200 pages, thirteen illustrations, eleven maps, notes, order of battles, and index. The cost is $32 with shipping costs and tax the same as the book above.

The address of the Eagle Press is 12002 Pleasant Forest, Little Rock, Arkansas 72212. The telephone is (501) 227-9480.

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Master Index, Agent Funeral Records, Boo\s 1-14, by Wilma Jean Hoyle, is a new, softbound book of sixty pages containing names listed

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in the records of the Agent Funeral Home of Sallisaw, Oklahoma, which has been in existence since August 1938. The Frontier Researchers' Com- mittee for the Seeking and Abstracting of Information from Old Records obtained these records, photocopied them, and placed them in the gene- alogical department of the Fort Smith Public Library, 61 South 8th Street, Fort Smith, Arkansas 72901. These records were then indexed by Wilma Jean Hoyle. All fourteen of the record books are indexed in this one volume, and it sells for $17, including postage. The address is Frontier Researchers, Post Office Box 2123, Fort Smith, Arkansas 72902.

Other books sold by Frontier Researchers are Sebastian County, Arkansas, Original Land Grants ($10 postpaid); Crawford County, Arkansas, Original Land Grants ($10 postpaid) ; 1890 Census (Recon- structed), Sebastian County, Arkansas ($22 postpaid) ; and The Good-

speed Histories of Sebastian County, Arkansas ($14.40 postpaid). # # #

The Legend of Mountain Springs, by Lizzie Guess and Margaret Aalseth (1986). Margaret Aalseth, who sent the association a copy of the

book, said that Mrs. Guess "wanted Mountain Springs remembered for what it once was in her childhood." The spring is located about six miles northwest of Cabot, Arkansas, on the east end of Wilson Hill. In answer-

ing a question by the editor if people can still go to the spring if they like, Mrs. Aalseth replied that "It is a walk through the brush, but they [the springs] are there and still running. Houses are being built closer to the spring all the time. A new road was built just below it. It is only one spring, but the plural is always on all the church and road signs. A church is still there. . . . Highway 5 goes through the middle of town as it was back then."

This sixty-eight page softbound book can be purchased for $9, in-

cluding postage, by writing to Margaret Aalseth, Route 4, Box 192A, Cabot, Arkansas 72023. There are recipes, maps, many photographs and

many memories. # # #

The Arkansas Delta: A Historical Loo\ at Our Land and People, Ken Hubbell and Janis Kearney Lunon, project directors. This new

fifty-one page booklet was sponsored by the Department of Arkansas

Heritage, Joan Baldridge, director. Individual chapters or sections were

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written by project advisors. The address of DAH is 225 East Markham, Suite 200, Little Rock, Arkansas 72201.

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Another interesting memoir is that of Margaret Mullen, entitled An

Arkansas Childhood: Growing Up in the Athens of the Ozar\s. It con- tains 216 pages. For more information, write to M & M Press, Post Office Box 338, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702.

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A book that was mentioned in Book Notes in the summer issue, but which we did not have much information on, is Memoirs by Dean Wil- liam Blackburn. The author says "The book has a chapter for each of the five members of my parents' immediate family of Johnson County, Arkansas." Other topics are tax delinquency; land forfeitures, and other effects of the Great Depression; land use planning of the Roosevelt Ad- ministration and its application in Arkansas, especially the delineation of land use problem areas; the use of land as free range in Arkansas as of

1935; and the vote on Initiated Act Number 1, Statewide Stock Law, November 7, 1950; the concerns of Arkansans at election time in 1966 and 1968; and many others. The book has 292 pages, is fully indexed, hardback, and the price is $32 postpaid. Order from Dean William

Blackburn, 111 Locust Avenue, Conway, Arkansas 72032. # # #

The Mountain Signal is edited and published by Shirley Shewmake Goodner. The subscription rate is $24 a year, single issues are $2 each,

postpaid. Address all subscription orders to the Mountain Signal, Post Office Box 683, Mena, Arkansas 71953. The Signal is published monthly and is filled with photographs, wonderful recipes, articles and remi- niscences about the area.

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