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Between 1819 and 1970, the town of Dardanelle, Arkansas, experienced sustained prosperity and growth made possible by the nearby farming community known as the Dardanelle Bottoms. Mildred Diane Gleason explores this rural / town dichotomy, revealing and analysing aspects of race, education, the cotton economy and its demise, floods and droughts, leisure, crime, and the impact of the Great Depression.