This is an experiment. Can a techno-idiot like Kitty Sloan create a blog? We'll see.

The purpose of this "blog" is to post news of interest to members of the Arkansas chapter of the Trail of Tears Association, such as:

Meredith Oakley's column in the Sunday, March 16, 2008, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette mentions the online reference Index Arkansas sponsored by the University of Arkansas Libraries.

See for yourself at http://arkindex.uark.edu/.

A subject search for "Trail of Tears" pointed me to articles in historical quarterlies from Carroll County (1961 and 1967), Desha County (1978), and Washington County (1986 and 1987) as well as two books reviews in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. Perhaps someone with access to those county periodicals can investigate the information in them. Apparently, the Carroll County articles were written by the late Sam Leath, who was credited for the Trail of Tears routes on Roads, Old Trails, Traces and Historical Places of Arkansas, a map published by the Cooperative Extension Service and still available for purchase as MP 149.

Posted by Kitty Sloan