Less a genre than a stylistic and narrative tendency___ is often considered to have started in 1941 with Huston's The Maltese Falcon or even earlier with Radio Keith Orpheum's (RKOS) film Stranger on the Third Floor,

The native americans, spanish, french and americans all name places in our state. the word “arkansas” came from the quapaw indians, by way of early french explorers. at the time of the early french exploration, a tribe of indians, the quapaws, lived west of the mississippi and north of the arkansas river.