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100 1  Ragsdale, William Oates,|d1915-|0https://id.loc.gov/
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245 10 They sought a land :|ba settlement in the Arkansas River 
       Valley, 1840-1870 /|cWilliam Oates Ragsdale. 
264  1 Fayetteville :|bUniversity of Arkansas Press,|c1997. 
300    1 online resource (139 pages) :|bportrait 
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504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-127) and 
       index. 
520    This well-researched study of one group of pioneers taking
       part in the westward expansion of the United States during
       the nineteenth century tells an illuminating story. The 
       prosperous farming families who left established comforts 
       in North Carolina and South Carolina to trek in covered 
       wagons to the unsettled Arkansas River Valley did not do 
       so for their own gain or adventure, but for the expected 
       opportunities their children and subsequent generations 
       would have in this "new frontier." Availability of cheap, 
       arable land in central Arkansas and desire for religious 
       freedom drew five hundred settlers and their slaves, over 
       a thirty-year period, to the area once called "Pisgah," 
       six miles east of modern-day Russellville. 
520 8  Family histories reveal the emigrants were bound together 
       by blood, friendship, and, most notably, a strong 
       Calvinist heritage, the tradition of an educated ministry 
       received from the Church of Scotland, and a desire to have
       the gospel privileges of an Associated Reformed 
       Presbyterian Church. The firm religious leadership of two 
       well-educated, dynamic ministers, first John Patrick and 
       later Monroe Oates, was central to this community's 
       formation, development, and survival to the end of the 
       century. 
520 8  Ragsdale's primary research into county land purchases and
       sales shows that the community experienced a climax of 
       economic prosperity in 1860, just before the Civil War 
       took men from their homes to serve in the Confederate and 
       Union armies. Letters and oral histories tell how the 
       deprivations of rural life were met; how bushwhackers 
       terrorized defenseless women and children, stole grain 
       stores, and drove off stock; how bitterness lingered 
       between the returning blues and grays; and how the 
       community eventually dispersed into Arkansas's larger 
       developing society. Absorbing to read and rich with 
       colorful detail, this community history is an important 
       story of the settling of the American South. 
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