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Indoor fireplace with red tiles and gas heater

Interior door with decorative frame and chair

Barkman House Interior Door

Indoor staircase with long banister

Barkman House Staircase

White man with mustache in jacket and shirt

Doors with decorative windows and chandelier above them as seen from staircase

James E. M. Barkman House Exterior Door

White man in suit and tie with walking cane

Antoine Barraque

White man in suit with long hair and sideburns

Stone marker with bird icon engraved text plaque patterned base in desert with mountain background

Battle of Buena Vista Memorial

"The Arkansas Mounted Rangers" newspaper clipping

Potrait of white man in suit with raised collar

Steamboat sinking in river with smoke billowing out of its smokestacks

Belle Zane Steamboat

Portrait older white man thin hair long sideburns in suit and tie

Thomas Hart Benton

Balding white man in suit with black collar

Charles Bertrand

Illustration of hunting dogs attacking bear with hunters watching, one aiming a long gun

Big Bear of Arkansas Illustration

Two young white men in suits with knives in hand

James Black & Jacob Buzzard

Tree covered hill side with bare trees and leaf covered roots

Blackfish Lake Ferry Site

Old white man in suit with white shirt

Painting of older white woman in black with black hair with brooch in red chair

"Runaway in Jail" newspaper clipping

Bob Lynching Story

Bob Lynching Story

White man with long hair in suit and bow tie

White man with long combed hair in suit and white shirt

"A Soldier of Fortune" newspaper clipping

Thomas M. Bowen Story

White man with brown hair and sideburns in black with white collar

"To the citizens of the territory of Arkansas" newspaper clipping

Bradford Campaign Announcement

"Steamboat Brandywine" newspaper clipping

Brandywine Article

"Jackson Saturday April 14 1832" newspaper clipping

Brandywine Article

Older white men and women in formal clothes pose with their adult children for family portrait

Robert Brownlee Family

"The Selba Murder" newspaper clipping

Burnett Family Execution Story

"The state vs. John Burnett ..." newspaper clipping

Burnett Trial Story

White man in suit with white shirt

John Butterfield

sign: "The Butterfield Stage Route: The Butterfield Stage Route between Saint Louis and San Francisco passed through the Main Street of Van Buren, Arkansas and crossed the river at this point."

Butterfield's Overland Comapny

White man in bishop's robes wearing a cross necklace

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