The Arkansas Thomas Cat, "A Journalistic Highball Run by a Heathen,"[1] was a humorous weekly magazine founded by Jefferson Davis Orear [2][3] and published in Hot Springs, Arkansas between 1890[4][5] and 1945,[6] when it was suspended for a year and continued as a monthly until about 1950.[7]

The publication contained mostly satire and humorous stories, but also occasionally exposed misdeeds of prominent citizens,[8] especially Arkansas politicians.[9]

Orear was a friend of Bat Masterson.[10]

References

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  1. ^ "About Arkansas Thomas cat. (Hot Springs, Ark) 1890-". Library of Congress - Chronicling America. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  2. ^ Allsopp, Fred William (1922). History of the Arkansas Press for a Hundred Years and More. Parke-Harper Publishing. p. 612.
  3. ^ Allsopp, Frederick William. "History of the Arkansas Press for a Hundred Years and More". Archive Org. Parke-Harper Publishing. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  4. ^ James Raymond Masterson (1942). Tall Tales of Arkansaw. Chapman & Grimes.
  5. ^ Monograph Series. Indiana University, Research Center for the Language Sciences. 1972. ISBN 978-0-87750-170-1.
  6. ^ Vance Randolph (1972). Ozark folklore: a bibliography. Indiana University Research Center for the Language Sciences. ISBN 9780877501701.
  7. ^ "Arkansas Thomas cat".
  8. ^ David E. E. Sloane (1 September 1987). American humor magazines and comic periodicals. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-23956-4.
  9. ^ Wade Hall (1965). The Smiling Phoenix.
  10. ^ Calls, Scott (2015-03-05). Bat Masterson's Last Words The Newspaper Years New York. Lulu Enterprises Incorporated. ISBN 9781312967953. Retrieved 14 November 2015.