SERIES: Pictorial History of the United States and Territories
SCENES: The French on the Mississippi, 1673; Guerillas, 1863-6; De Soto in Arkansas, 1541.
SIZE: 3" x 5"
DATE: 1892
LITHOGRAPHER: Donaldson Brothers, N.Y.
CONDITION: Good, I'd say. This card is generally only lightly soiled, but it does have a faint transparent stain along the top edge, just at the top of the scene with the Indians. The edges and corners are a bit worn. There are small sharp creases across the upper left and lower right corner. There's also a mild vertical crease in the left section of the card. (Please see scans.)
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REVERSE TEXT: ARKANSAS.
THE first civilized people to enter the land of the Arkansas Indians were the Spanish men-at-arms of Hernando de Soto, who crossed the Mississippi River just below Helena, in 1541, and remained in the country several months.
The next European visitor was Marquette, who, in 1673, with Joliet, descended the Mississippi to the Arkansas River and made a map of the region. Hennepin was possibly the next explorer, in 1680. La Salle, two years later, stopped at the mouth of the Arkansas River and took possession in the name of Louis XIV.
The first white settlement was made in 1686 at Arkansas Post, by Frenchmen, from a party led by the Chevalier Tonti.
The Territory of Arkansas was created in 1819, and General James Miller of New Hampshire was the first governor. The first Legislature met at Arkansas Post, the capital until 1821, when the seat of government passed to Little Rock.
Arkansas became a State in 1836, its first governor being James S. Conway. At the outbreak of the Civil War the sentiment of the people was in favor of the Union, but it soon turned, and in May, 1861, an ordinance of Secession was passed, and the State was admitted into the Southern Confederacy in the same month.
General Steele re-established the national authority in September, 1863, occupying Little Rock with the army of Arkansas. In the decade of the Secession War, the advance of the State was greatly retarded, but it now enjoys an era of prosperity.
