Jeannie M. Whayne is professor of history at the University of Arkansas, USA. She is the author of Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South.Thomas A. DeBlack is professor of history at Arkansas Tech University, USA. He is the author of With Fire and Sword: Arkansas, 1861-1874. George Sabo III is professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas, USA. His publications include Rock Art in Arkansas and Paths of Our Children: Historic Indians of Arkansas. Morris S. Arnold is a jurist of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and author of Rumble of a Distant Drum: The Quapaws and the Old World Newcomers, 1673-1804. Joseph Swain is assistant professor of geography at Arkansas Tech University, USA. Ben Johnson is professor of history at Southern Arkansas University, USA and the author of Arkansas in Modern America.