I figured it was more "politically motivated" than "historically accurate". So much of our "history" in Arkansas is "political mythology" rather than actual facts. It is really a shame that more attention is not payed to the "Actual" Battlefield of Jenkins Ferry and the men who died there on the real roads. Our State Parks and Department of Arkansas Heritage are really a joke.

Yeah, I know that there is a $40,000.00 study of Jenkins Ferry going on right now. But I was over at Sheridan at their "Heritage Days" a couple of weeks ago and the majority of conversation that I heard wasn't about any preservation effort, but how eveybody was hoping to make money off of that Battlefield. In that way the word "Tourism" reminded me of buzzards.

So the question becomes, 'What good is this "Study" going to do?' Is it to jack up the price of "Swamp land" in Grant County?

No I don't believe so. however some will take advantage of this. BUT, one of our problems in this county today is that we have so concerned ourselves with the monitary aspects of Tourism that we have forgotten to tell the true story of why these things happened. We have shaped the story to fit the "Mythology". We have placed the "Signs" in the "popular places" that did not even exist then, like on Hwy 270 in Sheridan. And by doing so we have forgotten how we even got into such a stiuation that caused such a War in the first place and why we became the Americans that we are today. And sadly we are repeating our mistakes.