NOLAND OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS.

SOURCE: THE WPA GUIDE TO 1930S ARKANSAS.

New Introduction by Elliott West.

Compiled by Workers of the Writers’ Program of the Works Projects Administration in the State of Arkansas.

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KANSAS

Introduction Copyright 1987 by the University Press of Kansas

Copyright 1941 by C. G. Hall, Secretary of State, Arkansas

First paperback edition, with a new introduction, published in 1987.

Originally published by Hastings House in 1941 under the title:

Arkansas: A Guide to the State.

Page 5: One of the State’s most prominent political figures was Charles Fenton Mercer Noland (“Pete Whetstone”), who wrote broad humor for a New York paper a hundred years before Bob Burns of Van Buren stood in front of a microphone and began to immortalize imaginary relatives.

Page 110: In the two decades that preceded the War between the States, a trickle of backwoods humor grew into a stream of books printed throughout the United States. Arkansas was often the inspiration for these gusty writings, which make a vivid, if minor, contribution to American literature. Arkansans, including Charles Fenton Mercer Noland (“Pete Whetstone”), wrote a number of the popular items, . . . .

Page 385: Among the early residents of Batesville was Colonel Charles Fenton Mercer Noland, who gained fame in the East for his humorous sketches published under the name “Pete Whetstone.”

BOOKS:

Hallum, John. Biographical and Pictorial History of Arkansas. Albany, , Reminiscenses of the Civil War, Little Rock, Tunnah and Pittard, 1903, 400 p.

, Historical Review of Arkansas. Chicago, Lewis Publishing Co., 1911. 3 v. il.

Pope, William F. Early Days in Arkansas. Little Rock, Fred W. Allsopp, 1895. 330 p. il. One of Arkansas’ earliest histories.

NEWSPAPERS:

Allsopp, Fred W. History of the Arkansas Press for a Hundred Years and More. Little Rock, Parke-Harper Co., 1922. 684 p. il.