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An Arkansas Planter, by Opie Percival Read
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Title: An Arkansas Planter
Author: Opie Percival Read
Release Date: August 23, 2006 [EBook #19107]
Language: English
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An Arkansas Planter
BY
OPIE READ,
AUTHOR OF
"A Yankee from the West," "The Waters of Caney Fork," "Mrs. Annie Green," "Up Terrapin River."
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK: RAND, McNALLY & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
CHAPTER I.
Lying along the Arkansas River, a few miles below Little Rock, there is a broad strip of country that was once the domain of a lordly race of men. They were not lordly in the sense of conquest; no rusting armor hung upon their walls; no ancient blood-stains blotched their stairways--there were no skeletons in dungeons deep beneath the banquet hall. But in their own opinion they were just as great as if they had possessed these gracious marks of medieval distinction. Their country was comp