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Boyce A. Drummond
Emeritus Professor of History, Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Author of Arkansas, Politics and Government.
Boyce A. Drummond,
Thomas O. Graff
Associate Professor of Geography, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
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Arkansas, constituent state of the United States of America. Arkansas ranks 29th among the 50 states in total area, but, except for Louisiana and Hawaii, it is the smallest state west of the Mississippi River. Its neighbours are Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma to the west. The name Arkansas was used by the early French explorers to refer to the Quapaw people—a prominent indigenous group in the area—and to the river along which they settled. The term was likely a corruption of akansea, the word ...(100 of 5302 words)

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