The Rumble of a Distant Drum

The Quapaws and Old World Newcomers, 1673-1804
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-1-55728-839-4
Verlag: University of Arkansas Press

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 392 g

The Rumble of a Distant Drum opens in 1673 when Marquette and Jolliet sailed down the Mississippi River and found the Quapaw already in residence in the Arkansas Post, where the Arkansas River flowed into the Mississippi. Here, they established the first European settlement in this part of the country, thirty years before New Orleans and eighty years before St. Louis. Morris S. Arnold draws on his many years of archival research and writing on colonial Arkansas to produce this elegant account of the cultural intersections of the French and Spanish with the native American peoples. He demonstrates that the Quapaws and Frenchmen created a highly symbiotic society in which the two disparate peoples became connected in complex and subtle ways - through intermarriage, trade, religious practice, and political/military alliances.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arnold, Morris

Über Autor(innen)

Morris S. Arnold is a United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit and a past winner of the state's highest literary award, the Porter Prize. He is the author of a number of books, including the prize-winning Colonial Arkansas, 1686-1804: A Social and Cultural History (University of Arkansas Press) and Unequal Laws unto a Savage Race: European Legal Tradition in Arkansas, 1686-1836 (University of Arkansas Press).