The Jucklins

Opie Percival Read (1852-1939) was a prolific American journalist and humourist. His bibliography lists 60 published books. Prior to 1887, he edited five separate newspapers, all in the U. S. South: the Statesville Argus, the Bowling Green Pantograph, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Little Rock Evening Post, and the Little Rock Gazette, ancestor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. In 1882, Read founded his own humour magazine, the Arkansas Traveler, which he carried on after leaving newspaper