The Rumble of a Distant Drum: The Quapaws and Old World Newcomers, 1673-1804

by Morris S. Arnold

Book Overview

Winner of the 2001 Booker Worthen Literary Prize
Winner of the 2002 S. G. Ragsdale Award for Arkansas History

The Rumble of a Distant Drum opens in 1673 when Marquette and Jolliet sailed down the Mississippi River and found the Quapaw living in the area where the Arkansas River flowed into the Mississippi. In 1686 Henri de Tonti would found Arkansas Post in this same location. It was the first European settlement in this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557288399
• ISBN13: 9781557288394
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"