Excerpt from Early Days in Arkansas: Being for the Most Part the Personal Recollections of an Old Settler On this, the eightieth anniversary of my birth, I finish a much cherished but long deferred task of preparing for publication my personal recollections of Early Days in Arkansas. Sitting in the impenetrable g-loom of total blindness, the mind's eye seems to have been strengthened by the loss of natural vision, and the scenes and events of over half a century ago appear but as the happenings of yesterday. But few persons are now living who were here when I first came to Arkansas, sixty-two years ago. It cannot possibly be long ere the last link in the chain connecting the present with the past will have been broken, and none left to tell the tale of those ancient days. Impressed with this thought, I have long had in contemplation the idea of attempting, in a feeble way, to prepare a memorial of the past, in which should be recorded my remembrances of the men and manners, and scenes and events of by-gone times. In the preparation of these memoirs I have not pretended to the role of the historian, in the broad sense of the term, although the matter contained herein is, for the most part, historical. Neither do I lay claim to the merits of authorship, but have endeavored, in my old age, to summon from the musty past such things as I conceived might be of interest and instruction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.