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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My personal thanks to Martha Patton, who took this project on as a second job and worked nights and weekends on multiple drafts, often catching my mistakes. My thanks, too, to Martha F. Ferson, a student at the University of the South (Sewanee), and Brian Pipkin, who labored mightily at the History Commission researching spools of Arkansas newspapers. Megan Hargraves also filled the role of spot researcher as did Jennifer Flinn. Rod Miller at the Supreme Court Library was more than willing to find what was available at his library and to cast a wide net to discover what might be available at the Arkansas Legislative Research Office and the History Commission as well as the State Library. Elizabeth Danley, senior reference librarian at the State Library, was especially helpful, as was Cheryl Reinhart at the Legislative Research Office. Keith Melton at the Arkansas Arts Center was an immeasurable help in garnering relevant George Fisher cartoons. Linda Pine and Jennifer McCarty at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock library filled a similar role for Jon Kennedy cartoons and in finding helpful pictures of the governors. Other pictures of the governors were provided through Tom Dillard, director of the University of Arkansas Library at Fayetteville, and Geoffery Stark of the special library collection; Lyn Eubanks of the History Commission; Brian Robertson of the Institute of Arkansas Studies; Barry Arthur and Frank Fellone of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette; and Ray Granade of Ouchita Baptist University Library. I am indebted to each and every one of these people for their willing assistance. ix ...

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