1 A city of eastern Oklahoma on the Arkansas River southeast of Tulsa. Founded in1872, it is a trade and industrial center. Population, 37, 708.

2 A city of south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River southwest of Kansas City.

3 A city of central Kansas on the Arkansas River northwest of Wichita. It is located on the old Santa Fe Trail. Population, 15, 427.

4 East of Fort Smith down the Arkansas River, and in the mountains to the north, the counties tended to be populist, socially conservative, and pretty evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats.

5 Arkansas River northwest of Wichita. It is a commercial and industrial center in an agricultural and oil-producing area. Population, 39, 308.

6 In this community of 3,000 on the Arkansas River, where everyone is cheering on the Hillbillies, the high school football team that made it to the state playoffs, turkey is an industry.

7 I was in Clarksville in the Arkansas River valley with my twenty-two-year-old county leader, Ron Taylor, who was from a prominent political family and politically wise well beyond his years.

8 The Arkansas River can rise no higher than to the Main Street bridge in Little Rock.

9 A city of central Kansas on the Arkansas River northwest of Wichita.

10 A city of southwest Kansas on the Arkansas River west of Wichita.

11 A city of south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River northwest of Wichita .

12 A river, about 451 km (280 mi) long,[] of southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma flowing generally southward to the Arkansas River.

13 In a trip through Colorado in 2002, I caught the Arkansas River at a perfect level.

14 A river rising in northeast New Mexico and flowing about , 458 km (90' mi) eastward across the Texas Panhandle to the Arkansas River in eastern Oklahoma.

15 A river rising in northeast New Mexico and flowing about , 23 km ('98 mi) eastward across southwest Kansas to the Arkansas River in northern Oklahoma.

16 It was actually the day before Beebe was turned into an avian killing field that a tugboat operator spotted some 100,000 drum fish floating in the Arkansas river 125 miles away.

17 The creek in the middle photo is Lake Creek, which begins near the Continental Divide and flows downward into Twin Lakes before trickling into the Arkansas River.

18 A river rising in northeast New Mexico and flowing about1, 123 km(698 mi) eastward across southwest Kansas to the Arkansas River in northern Oklahoma.