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- 1 2 3 Marc R. Matrana, Lost Plantations of the South, Oxford, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2009, pp. 40-43
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Gatewood, Willard B Jr. (Spring 1991). "Sunnyside: The Evolution of an Arkansas Plantation, 1840-1945". The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 50 (1): 5–29. doi:10.2307/40022326. JSTOR 40022326.
- ↑ The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture James W. Mason (1841–1874) aka: James Mason Worthington