The Centennial History of Arkansas. (Volume #2)

By: Dallas T. Herndon, Pub. 1922, Reprinted 2019, 1058 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-069-1.  When Dallas T. Herndon became Secretary of Arkansas History Commission in 1911, he began to “realize that the state had no history that could be relied upon as authentic,” although several state histories had been published, but whose authors did not have access to reliable sources of information.  “With more and more people seeking information on the state, which often required hours and even days of research,” Mr. Herndon in the Fall of 1920 entered into arrangements to begin work toward the publication of this three volume series.