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In the very early 1930s, before the Great Depression deepened, Arkansas farmers and their families were already suffering… and some had been for years.

Photograph by Arthur Rothstein In August 1935, Farm Security Administration photographer Arthur Rothstein turned his camera toward Winslow, Arkansas, and captured a small mountain town whose life was closely tied to the railroad.

In the 1930s, the same drought that was destroying farms across the Great Plains was uncovering something remarkable beneath the soil.

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There are places in Grand Teton National Park where the mountains are something you look at.

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Mention the word “thistle,” and for a lot of us, the first thought is probably weed.

Some places have names that sound as though the tourism department worked a little too hard.

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The Big Question this Spring – What’s Hitler Got?

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On April 14, 1935, a beautiful spring afternoon turned into midnight.

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Internees Arriving in Santo Tomás, 1942 Carl Mydans had photographed some of the hardest years of the Depression for the Farm Security Administration before becoming a LIFE magazine photographer.

For a while, it seemed Arkansas was about to become Buc-ee’s country.

In 1939, Lois Adolf’s family was receiving relief assistance.

In the 1930s, the Dust Bowl, drought, and the Depression drove many independent farmers, tenants, and sharecroppers from the land.

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It is easy to look at an old photograph of a Midwestern farm and see something peaceful: a barn, a windmill, a team of horses, fields stretching toward the horizon.

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Most Americans probably think Prohibition ended on December 5, 1933.

This is a Norman Rockwell-style interpretation of a nearly 90-year-old black-and-white photograph.

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Cartoon generated by AI from the information in the story Southwest American, Sat, Jul 09, 1966 ·Page 1 Near Russellville RUSSELLVILLE, Ark.

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Old photographs rarely give up their details easily.

GUARDING THE BOOZE—Deputy Sheriff Ardis Alford, Sheriff Guy Hickman, Deputy Reese Gilbert and Constable Cecil McCarley inspect a haul of 100 gallons of whiskey captured in the Solo community, north of Hector, Pope County. (1949) Most Americans learned that

The following article from the January 21, 1906, Arkansas Democrat describes the condition of the contents of the Bank of Russellville’s vault after the surrounding building burned and hot bricks buried it in the Russellville fire of January 15–16, 1906.