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Little RockHot Springs

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Narrated by The Broadcaster 89 km · about 56 min · 12 stories

Southwest through the pines: the Little Rock Nine, the bauxite boom, the 1927 flood, and Hot Springs in its gambling era — a spa town where gangsters took the waters between indictments, and Bathhouse Row treated everything the era could catch.

The stories

In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.

  1. 1
    Little Rock, Arkansas

    The Little Rock Landmark

  2. 2
    Little Rock, Arkansas

    The Little Rock Nine Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  3. 3
    Little Rock, Arkansas

    The Little Rock Nine Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  4. 4
    Little Rock, Arkansas

    The Little Rock Nine Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  5. 5
    Bryant, Arkansas

    The Bauxite Boom

  6. 6
    Benton, Arkansas

    The 1927 Mississippi Flood

  7. 7
    Benton, Arkansas

    The Caddo and the Ouachitas

  8. 8
    Benton, Arkansas

    Magnet Cove's Geologic Rarity

  9. 9
    Lonsdale, Arkansas

    The Three-Toed Box Turtle

  10. 10
    Hot Springs, Arkansas

    Hot Springs Gambling Era

  11. 11
    Hot Springs, Arkansas

    The Cemetery Angel of Hot Springs

  12. 12
    Hot Springs, Arkansas

    The Rise of Bathhouse Row

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Where the stories come from

Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.