| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.4

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Book Review

The Old South Frontier: Cotton Plantations and the Formation of Arkansas Society, 1819–1861. By Donald P. McNeilly. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000. xii, 268 pp. $34.95, ISBN 1-55728-619-1.)

Historical monographs on the Old South have focused largely upon Gulf or Atlantic seaboard states, those considered most traditionally as having constituted the cotton belt. Donald P. McNeilly's aptly titled study seeks to expand our understanding of the antebellum South by focusing upon its far western frontier, specifically the trans-Mississippi state of Arkansas. What results is a useful yet uneven study of planters' struggle for mastery of a hostile environment and rough-and-tumble society. . . .

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