A stalwart of state history, Dillard heads the Special Collections at the University of Arkansas Libraries. Here he devotes about two pages each to natives, immigrants, and passers-by, in sections on natives, explorers, and early settlers; antebellum, postbellum, and 20th-century politicians; the law; entrepreneurs; artists and writers; education, science, and medicine; entertainers and performers; religious leaders; seers, spiritualists, and skeptics; and eccentrics, frauds, and the inexplicable. He includes photographs now and then. There is no index. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)