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- 1 2 3 Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland and Hot Spring Counties, Arkansas: Comprising a Condensed History of the State... Biographies of Distinguished Citizens...[etc.]. Goodspeed publishing Company. 1889.
- ↑ "Saline County". Daily Arkansas Gazette. Little Rock, Arkansas. 9 June 1922.
- ↑ "Benton Courier becomes Saline Courier". Arkansas Online. 2010-08-09. Retrieved 2018-05-28.
- ↑ Leaving Readers Behind . University of Arkansas Press. 2001. p. 52. ISBN 9781610752329.
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