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  2. South Arkansas - Wikipedia

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    In the 1920s, nationwide attention focused on South Arkansas when the Smackover Field [2] was ranked first among the nation's oil fields. For five months in 1925, the 40-square-mile (100 km 2) Smackover Field was the focal point of one of the wildest mineral booms in North America. Today, south Arkansas's oil fields produce petroleum throughout ...

  3. Southern Arkansas University - Wikipedia

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    Southern Arkansas University was established by an Act of the Arkansas Legislature in 1909 as a district agricultural high school for southwest Arkansas and was originally named "Third District Agricultural School", often called by students and faculty "TDAS."

  4. Arkansas Timberlands - Wikipedia

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    The Arkansas Timberlands (sometimes also called Southern Arkansas or Southwest Arkansas) is a region of the U.S. state of Arkansas generally encompassing the area south of the Ouachita Mountains, south of Central Arkansas and west of the Arkansas Delta.

  5. History of Arkansas - Wikipedia

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    Beginning around 11,700 B.C.E., the first indigenous people inhabited the area now known as Arkansas after crossing today's Bering Strait, formerly Beringia. [3] The first people in modern-day Arkansas likely hunted woolly mammoths by running them off cliffs or using Clovis points, and began to fish as major rivers began to thaw towards the end of the last great ice age. [4]

  6. Culture of Arkansas - Wikipedia

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    Southern culture remains prominent in the rural Arkansas delta and south Arkansas. Arkansans share a history with the other southern states that includes the institution of slavery, the American Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow laws and segregation, the Great Depression, and the Civil Rights Movement.

  7. Southern Arkansas University Tech - Wikipedia

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    The Arkansas State Board of Education operated the school until 1975 when, by an Act of the Arkansas Legislature, Southwest Technical Institute became Southern Arkansas University Tech under the governance of the Board of Trustees of Southern Arkansas University. With this change, the college came under the jurisdiction of the Arkansas ...

  8. Arkansas - Wikipedia

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    Arkansas (/ ˈ ɑːr k ən s ɔː / ⓘ AR-kən-saw [c]) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. [9] [10] It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma to the west.

  9. Southern Arkansas Muleriders football - Wikipedia

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    Southern Arkansas plays its annual rivalry game, "The Battle of the Timberlands", against the University of Arkansas at Monticello Boilweevils. The rivalry dates back to 1913 and the winning team is awarded a traveling trophy. SAU leads the series 55–35–1.