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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), America, discoverers of. (search)
Arkansas,
One of the Southwestern States; discovered by De Soto in 1541, who crossed the Mississippi near the site of Helena.
It was next visited by father Marquette (q. v.) in 1673.
It was originally a part of Louisiana, purchased from the French in 1803, and so remained until 1812, when it formed a part of Missouri Territory.
It was erected into a Territory in 1819, with its present name, and remained under a territorial government until 1836, when a convention at Little Rock, its present capital, formed a State constitution.
Its first territorial legislature met at Arkansas Post in 1820.
On June 15, 1836, Arkansas was admitted into the Union as a State.
In 1861 the people of Arkansas were attached to the Union, but, unfortunately, the governor and most of the leading politicians of the State were disloyal, and no effort was spared by them to obtain the passage of an ordinance of secession.
For this purpose a State convention of delegates assembled at the capital (Littl
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Garfield , James Abram 1831 -1881 (search)