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Arkansaw
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Proper noun
en Arkansas.
en Arkansaw Justice. The Ways of its Grand Juries. Raleigh Register https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/56208580/ I 48 Raleigh, N.C. 28 January 1885 On one occasion when court met at Arkansaw Post, the Colonel was particularly desirous of making a good record. https://web.archive.org/web/20230831055853/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/56208580/ 31 August 2023
en B[urt] J[ames] Milam Letter No. 4. A Trip to Mt. Scott and The Opening of Lawton. The Honest Farmer from Arkansaw. (And Others.) The Honest Farmer from Arkansaw on a Lark Seein’ the West [Jacksonville, Fla.] 1905 65 https://archive.org/details/honestfarmerfrom00mila/page/65/mode/1up 20796663 There was an honest farmer / Who hailed from Arkansaw, / And landed hopeful in Fort Sill / To register for a draw.
1910, anonymous, “The State of Arkansaw” in John Lomax John A. Lomax, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, New York: Sturgis & Walton, p.227,
I landed in St. Louis with ten dollars and no more; / I read the daily papers till both my eyes were sore; / I read them evening papers until at last I saw / Ten thousand men were wanted in the state of Arkansaw.
Derived terms
en Arkansawyer