Abstract
through manuscripts, diaries, correspondence in search of a point of detail which he needs to complete his story? Is there one who has not been frustrated by what has not been recorded by our forefathers? How does one go about reconstructing every-day-life in Arkansas before the Civil War? What were the amenities of life, the struggles and joys of those early pioneers who came to this new country after the Louisiana Purchase? Or before? The further back one goes, of course, the greater the gap in our knowledge outside of what was reported by government and/or military officials. Will it ever be possible to squeeze more knowledge from the sources left us by the early inhabitants of Arkansas, before facilities for reproducing and distributing the written word proliferated? One source of such knowledge has barely been touched, much less squeezed. Archeologists are generally thought of as those who dig up the remains of pre-historic peoples -those who lived before the time of written records. A more
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