Reconstruction Begins  Beware of Scalawags & Carpetbaggers  Out With the Old, In With the New  The Democrats Declare War on the Republicans  Powell Clayton -  Elisha Baxter -  Joseph Brooks  Devastation  The Failure of Reconciliation  Waste Howling Wilderness  Clayton's "New Era" Program  The Brooks-Baxter War  Arkansas News : Spring 1985 and Fall 1989  Arkansas Governors' Biographies: Civil War & Reconstruction  The Arkansas Slave Narratives: "Them Dark Days"