The inventor cocreated the film fred arts sneeze which was one of the first american movies

Fred Ott, the man who sneezed, was the assistant of inventor Thomas Edison.

The native americans, spanish, french and americans all name places in our state. the word “arkansas” came from the quapaw indians, by way of early french explorers. at the time of the early french exploration, a tribe of indians, the quapaws, lived west of the mississippi and north of the arkansas river.