In 1972, Congress established the first national river—the Buffalo. Winding through Arkansas’s Ozarks region, the Buffalo National River is, in the words of native songwriter Jimmy Driftwood…
“Arkansas’s gift to the nation, America’s gift to the world.”
To celebrate the 50-year anniversary of this nationally and regionally significant event the University of Arkansas’s Humanities Center and University of Arkansas Libraries, have created the Digital Buffalo. Sponsored by the University of Arkansas Chancellor’s Innovation Fund, the project serves as a resource center for historical and original materials about the Buffalo and will keep users up to date on 2022’s year-long series of events.
Interactive Histories
Each map contains interactive content bringing together history, interviews, maps, and photographs with geographic information systems.
Recorded Events
Events have been designed in coordination with community groups around the region and research centers and programs across the university including the Center for Arkansas Spatial Technologies (CAST), the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Oral and Visual History, the Arkansas Archeological Survey, and Arkansas Folk and Traditional Arts.
Collections
Digital Buffalo is an ongoing project to make available for researchers, scholars, and teachers original documents and reports, interviews and resources, lectures and interpretive passages, and maps and surveys.