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(Andrew Jackson Bounds—Beaver Dam Ducks Club– Ho’ace) In a July 1854 Arkansas Supreme Court case, testimony indicated that several slaves belonging to Benton County resident Sarah Ridge “frequently carried guns.”  One of the men, Wagoola, used a “large rifle.” Bondsman Quinn had several accidental encounters with bears where he was forced to climb a treeContinue reading “Early Arkansas: Enslaved Hunters and Gunners”