Interesting Facts about Arkansas

• During a battle of Chickasaw versus Quapaw Indians, the Chickasaw ran out of ammunition. The Quawpaw obligingly gave half of their gunpowder to the enemy, and the battle continued.
• The Brooks-Baxter War, a dispute between two candidates for governor, actually became so fierce that ten persons were killed in the squabble.
• A newly rich oil family at El Dorado bought a home at a high price. When the owners started to take down the family portraits, the buyer shouted: "Oh no you don't. Pitchers is furniture!"
• The farm of John M. Huddleston was so poor that he was about to give up on it when he discovered the continent's only diamond mine on his property.
• Some Arkansas rivers were so shallow that steamboats were designed to operate in as little as a foot of water.
• Sam Walton founded his Wal-Mart Stores merchandising empire in Bentonville and became one of the nation's richest men.