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Arkansas Thomas Cat

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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]

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  1. "About Arkansas Thomas cat. (Hot Springs, Ark) 1890-". Library of Congress - Chronicling America. Retrieved November 14, 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 November 14, 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. Humanities, National Endowment for the. "Arkansas Thomas cat". Retrieved May 12, 2025.
  8. David E. E. Sloane (September 1, 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 (March 5, 2015). Bat Masterson's Last Words The Newspaper Years New York. Lulu Enterprises Incorporated. ISBN 9781312967953. Retrieved November 14, 2015.