Source Information

Ancestry.com. Pictorial History of Arkansas Up to 1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003.
Original data: Hempstead, Fay. A Pictorial History of Arkansas From Earliest Times To the Year 1890. St. Louis, MO and New York, USA: N. D. Thompson Publishing, 1890.

About Pictorial History of Arkansas Up to 1890

This database contains a history of the state of Arkansas from the earliest of times to 1890. It includes over one hundred illustrations and complete accounts on the native Indian tribes, the early French and Spanish explorers and governors, the colonial period, the Louisiana Purchase, the periods of the territory, the state, the Civil War, and the subsequent period. It also contains an extended history of each county in the order of formation and of the principal cities and towns, along with biographical sketches of distinguished and prominent citizens. This database is an excellent source for researchers with ancestors from Arkansas, for within this work is a great deal of information about the time and place in which your ancestors lived.