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Clark County Historical Association

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Halliburton's Features To Be Released, Wendy Bradley Richter Oct 2015

Halliburton's Features To Be Released, Wendy Bradley Richter

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The Clark County Historical Association published “This ‘N That by Hal: A Collection of W. H. Halliburton’s News Features, 1909-1976.” As its title suggests, the book contains a variety of articles from a variety of newspapers from over six decades. Halliburton’s daughter, Caryl Halliburton Linton, lives in Arkadelphia and wrote the introduction for the collection of articles.

W. H. “Hal” Halliburton spent his entire career as a journalist. Born in 1887 in Reydel, he attended Ouachita College. His byline first appeared in 1909 when he began writing for the school’s literary magazine, “Ripples.” By 1920, Halliburton was hired as the …


Civil War Marker Placed In Clark County In 2014, Wendy Bradley Richter Jan 2015

Civil War Marker Placed In Clark County In 2014, Wendy Bradley Richter

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In the spring of 1865, after four years of fighting, the American Civil War finally came to a close. As a part of the observation of the war’s sesquicentennial, a number of Civil War-related programs and events have told the story of what happened in this area of Arkansas, when military activity reached its zenith in the southwestern portion of the state.