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Crossett Municipal Auditorium was the site of practices and the final competition in the Miss Rodeo Arkansas pageant of 2007. Miss Brittany Sing was... declared Miss Rodeo Arkansas on August 4, 2007. Preceding that announcement, Abby McCallie was declared Miss Rodeo Arkansas Princess and Miss Kirbi Allen was declared Teen Miss Rodeo Arkansas. The building was subsequently listed in the National Register of Historic Places on September 20, 2007. It is located at 1100 Main Street in Crossett.
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Barry Switzer is a former football coach, active in the college and professional ranks between 1962 and 1997. He has one of the highest winning... percentages of any college football coach in history, and is one of only two head coaches to win both a college football national championship and a Super Bowl Born in Crossett, Arkansas, Switzer's father Frank was a bootlegger who was arrested at the family house. His mother Mary Louise raised Barry and his brother Donnie, but on August 26, 1959 she shot herself. Barry accepted an athletic scholarship and played football at the University of Arkansas. After graduation, he did a brief stint in the U.S. Army and then returned to Arkansas as an assistant coach. Following the 1966 season, Switzer moved to the University of Oklahoma as an assistant coach under new head coach and good friend, Jim Mackenzie. After Mackenzie died of a heart attack following spring practice of 1967, Switzer continued as an assistant under former University of Houston assistant and new Oklahoma head coach Chuck Fairbanks.
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Arkansas is a state located in the Southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River. Its diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozarks and the Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U.S. Interior Highlands, to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River. Arkansas is the... 29th most extensive and the 32nd most populous of the 50 United States. The capital and most populous city is Little Rock, located in the central portion of the state. The name “Arkansas” derives from the same root as the name for the state of Kansas. The Kansa tribe of Native Americans are closely associated with the Sioux tribes of the Great Plains. The word “Arkansas” itself is a French pronunciation of a Quapaw word, akakaze, meaning “land of downriver people” or the Sioux word akakaze meaning “people of the south wind”.
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