Edward Washburn

[3] Edward Payson Washburn painted the image of the "Arkansas Traveler" in 1856, from a story he heard from Colonel Sandford C.

[3][4][5] Supposedly occurring on the campaign trail in Arkansas in 1840, Colonel Faulkner's humorous story ends with a fiddle playing squatter being won over by the traveler (man on horse in image).

The painting was later a basis of engravings by Leopold Grozelier of Boston in 1859, and Currier and Ives of New York City about 1870, with a sample from the Arkansas Traveler tune.

It was created south of present-day Russellville, Arkansas at the Washburn family homestead site near Norristown.

[4] Washburn died in Little Rock, Arkansas, only nine days after his father, and is buried at Mount Holly Cemetery.