Highway 99 was a north–south highway in northwestern Arkansas. Its southern terminus was at Highway 45 near Dutch Mills with its northern terminus at the Arkansas-Oklahoma state line 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northwest of Maysville, where it continued as Oklahoma State Highway 20 . In the 1930s it was truncated to Highway 68 (now U.S. Highway 412) in Siloam Springs, Arkansas and replaced by Highway 59. The northern segment was replaced by Highway 43 in 1971.
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“The man who would change the name of Arkansas is the original, iron-jawed, brass-mouthed, copper-bellied corpse-maker from the wilds of the Ozarks! He is the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam’d by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the smallpox on his mother’s side!”
—Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)