Bibliography
Interested in learning more about these topics? Check out the following web-sites, archives, and publications.
Web-sites:
Arkansas Historical Association
St. Mary’s Church, Altus, Arkansas
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Tontitown, Arkansas
Subiaco Abbey, Subiaco, Arkansas
Tontitown Historical Museum, Tontitown, Arkansas
Archival Holdings: Subiaco Abbey (Catholic heritage archives), Grand Prairie Historical Society (immigrant ancestry archival holdings), Special Collections, University of Arkansas (Colonial Arkansas Post Ancestors Website), Shiloh Museum of Ozark History (Italian immigrant holdings), Tontitown Historical Museum, Arkansas State Archives, Butler Center for Arkansas History, Arkansas Historic Commission, Quapaw Nation Archives
Publications:
Arnold, Morris S. “The Métis People of Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Arkansas.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 57, no. 3 (2016): 261-96.
—. The Rumble of a Distant Drum: The Quapaws and the Old World Newcomers, 1673-1804. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2007.
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Barbata Jackson, Jessica. Dixie’s Italians: Sicilians, Race, and Citizenship in the Jim Crow Gulf South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020.
Barnes, Kenneth. “‘Don’t Go to Arkansas:’ How the Prussian Government Tried to Curb Emigration to the Arkansas River Valley in 1881 and 1882.” Faulkner Facts and Fiddlings 44 (Fall, Winter 2001 and Spring 2002): 9-13.
Brister, Louis E. “The Image of Arkansas in the Early German Emigrant Guidebook: Notes on Immigration.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 36 (Autumn 1977): 338-45.
Borgognoni, Libby. Italians of Sunnyside 1895-1995: A People of Faith, of Hope, and of Love. Centennial Celebration September 1, 2, 3, 1995. Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church. Lake Village, AR: Libby Borgognoni, 1995.
Braun, Lauren Hillary. “Italians, the Labor Problem, and the Project of Agricultural Colonization in the New South, 1884–1934.” PhD diss., University of Illinois at Chicago, 2010.
Condray, Kathleen. Das Arkansas Echo: A Year in the Life of Germans in the Nineteenth-Century South. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2020.
Conzen, Kathleen Neils, David A. Gerber, Ewa Morawska, George E. Pozzetta, and Rudolph J. Vecoli. ”The Invention of Ethnicity: A Perspective from the U.S.A.” Journal of American Ethnic History 12, no. 1 (1992): 3-41.
Dubuisson, Ann. “François Sarazin: Interpreter at Arkansas Post during the Chickasaw Wars.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 71, no. 3 (2012): 243-63.
DuVal, Kathleen. “Indian Intermarriage and Métissage in Colonial Louisiana.” The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, 65, no. 2 (2008): 267-304.
—. 2006. The Native Ground Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent. University of Pennsylvania Press.
Faust, Albert Bernhardt. The German Element in the United States with Special Reference to its Political, Moral, Social, and Educational Influence. 2 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909.
Freeman, Felton D. “Immigration to Arkansas.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 7 (Autumn, 1948): 210-220.
Guglielmo, Jennifer and Salvatore Salerno. Are Italians White? How Race is Made in America. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Hadley, A. W. “The Tontitown Settlement: History of a Successful Italian Colony in Arkansas.” Maxwell’s Talisman, October 1905, 14–16.
Hermann, Karl Friedrich. “Memoirs, Letters, and Diary Entries of German Settlers in Northwest Arkansas, 1853-1863.” Translated by Clarence Evans. Arkansas Historical Quarterly 6 (Autumn 1947): 225-249.
Hoerder, Dirk and Jörg Nagler, eds. German Migrations in Comparative Perspective, 1820-1930, People in Transit, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Jones, Linda. The Shattered Cross: French Catholic Missionaries on the Mississippi River, 1698-1725. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020.
Lankford, George E. “Shawnee Convergence: Immigrant Indians in the Ozarks.” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 58, no. 4 (1999): 390-413.
LeMaster, Carolyn Gray. A Corner of the Tapestry: A History of the Jewish Experience in Arkansas, 1820’s-1990’s. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1994.
Lucey, John M. “History of Immigration to Arkansas.” Publications of the Arkansas Historical Association 3 (1911): 201-219.
Mangione, Jerre and Ben Morreale. La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience. New York: Harper Perennial, 1993.
Roselli, Bruno. “An Arkansas Epic.” Century Magazine, January 1920, 377–386.
Scarpaci, Vincenza. The Journey of the Italians in America. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, Inc., 2008.
Schede, Simone. “‘Gone, but not forgotten’ – But Almost: The German Heritage of Arkansas.” Amerikastudien / American Studies 44.4 (1999): 477-496.
Stone, Alfred H. Italian Cotton-Growers in Arkansas. New York: Review of Reviews Company, 1907.
Strub, Joseph. Leitstern zur St. Joseph’s Colonie (unter Leitung der Väter vom hl. Geist) im Westen des Staates Arkansas. Morrilton: n.p., 1880. Republished and translated by Kenneth Barnes as The Guiding Star For the St. Joseph Colony: A Guide Book for Catholic Emigrants to the Arkansas River Valley. Conway: Faulkner County Historical Society, 1997.
Toudji, Sonia. “‘The Happiest Consequences’: Sexual Unions and Frontier Survival at Arkansas Post.” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 70, no. 1 (2011): 45-56.
—. “Women in Early Frontier Arkansas: “They Did All the Work except Hunting”.” In Arkansas Women: Their Lives and Times, edited by Jones-Branch Cherisse and Edwards Gary T., 5-26. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018.
Watkins, Beverly. “Efforts to Encourage Immigration to Arkansas, 1865-1874.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 38 (Spring 1979): 32-62.
Whayne, Jeannie M. Shadows over Sunnyside: An Arkansas Plantation in Transition, 1830-1945. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1993.
Whayne, Jeannie, Thomas A. DeBlack, George Sabo, and Morris Arnold. Arkansas: A Narrative History. 2nd edition. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2013.
Wolfe, Jonathan James. “Background of German Immigration.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 25 (Summer 1966): 151-182.
Young, Susan. “So Big, This Little Place.” The Founding of Tontitown, Arkansas, 1989-1917. Tontitown: Tontitown Historical Museum, 2009.
Woods, James M. Mission and Memory: A History of the Catholic Church in Arkansas. Little Rock: August House, 1993.