Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ... NORTH-WESTERN ARKANSAS. When General McCullough passed through Fayetteville, on his way to discomfiture and death at Pea Kidge, he expressed the wish, that North-western Arkansas was in a place, which we shall simply designate as more hot than holy. If character and calamity on the one hand, and the Bible on the other, can determine the post mortem condition of a human being, "Ben McCullough," whilom somewhat famous as a Texan Ranger, is sealed with a fate that polemics cannot modify, and God will never change. Rabid secessionists have always disliked North-western Arkansas. Though bordering on the Cherokee line, it has been for years the intellectual centre of the State, with Fayetteville as the point from which its intelligence) radiated. Settled principally by Kentuckians and Tennesseeans, whose early teachings, under Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson, gave to their politics life, and to their loyalty vigor, attachment to the Federal Union has, from its settlement, been the prevailing sentiment of ihis section; a result attributable, in no small degree, to the educational institutions of Fayetteville and vicinity. In the summer of 1839 the first school was established in Fayetteville. Its proprietress, Miss Sophia Sawyer, was well known and very favorably remembered by the early residents of Washington county. A lady of indomitable energy, her experiment soon expanded into the Fayetteville Female Seminary, at the head of which she continued for a number of years, and until declining health compelled the abandonment of her enterprise to the care of others. In 1842, Robert W. Mecklin, who had been for years a prominent State surveyor, opened a grammar school, three miles west of Fayetteville. Shortly afterward it became the Ozark...
