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OPIE, an American journalist; born in Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 22, 1852. He established and edited for many years the "Arkansaw Traveler."

His studies of Arkansas life have been widely read, and include: "Len Gansett" (1888); "My Young Master"; "An Arkansaw Planter"; "Up Terrapin River"; "A Kentucky Colonel"; "On the Suwanee River"; "Miss Polly Lop, and Other Stories"; "The Captain's Romance"; "The Jucklins," a novel; "Bolanyo"; "A Yankee from the West"; "A Tennessee Judge"; "In the Alamo" (1900) "Mystery of Margaret" (1907).

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