Opie Pope Read

Opie Pope Read, newspaperman, author, and lecturer who penned several successful novels and co-founded the comic newspaper The Arkansas Traveler in 1882.

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Courtesy of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System

Media

Time Period

Post-Reconstruction through the Gilded Age (1875 - 1900)

Category

Journalists / Media / Print Journalism

Type

Person

Race & Ethnicity

White

Gender

Male

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