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Arkansas River

A major tributary of the Mississippi River. With it's headwaters east of the Great Divide in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, the Arkansas flows east across the Great Plains through Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and finally Arkansas.

Trail West to Fury: In August of 1871, Bret and Bart Maverick and Dandy Jim Buckley were caught in a torrential flooding[1] of the Arkansas River near Pueblo,[2] Colorado Territory. They sought refuge in an abandoned house, but quickly became trapped as the waters rose within the house. While waiting out the deluge, Bret and Bart told Dandy Jim the story of their homecoming after the Civil War, the Tall Man, and why they could never again return to Texas.[1]