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Date Original
1905-04-02
Description
World War I discharge card for Clifton Clowers.
Physical Description
2 pages, 4" x 6"
Subjects
War; Soldiers
Contributor
War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, D.C.
Geographical Area
Washington, D.C.
Language
English
Identifier
ASA three-dimensional object collection, A2006-0028
Resource Type
Text
Collection
ASA three-dimensional object collection
Publisher
Arkansas State Archives
Contributing Entity
Arkansas State Archives
Recommended Citation
Clifton Clowers World War I discharge card, ASA three-dimensional object collection, Arkansas State Archives, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Rights
Use and reproduction of images held by the Arkansas State Archives without prior written permission is prohibited. For information on reproducing images held by the Arkansas State Archives, please call 501-682-6900 or email at state.archives@arkansas.gov.
Disciplines
United States History
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Music has been a big part of my life and when I came across this card years ago I was thrilled. In 1962, Claude King had a huge hit on the Billboard charts with a song called "Wolverton Mountain." The song was penned by music great Merle Kilgore, who had written a number of hits for other country artists in the 1960s. In the song, the main character is in love with the daughter of a mean man who is "handy with a knife and a gun", a man called Clifton Clowers. Kilgore wrote the song about his uncle Clifton Clowers, who lived on a small farm at the foot of Wolverton Mountain in Conway County. According to the song, Clowers is so mean that no one can dare woo his daughter. Whether or not Clowers, in real life, lived up to his reputation in the song or not, he had been an Arkansas doughboy during the First World War, and it is possibly where he learned how to wield the weapons he is noted for carrying in the song. - Brian Irby