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the enormous rise of a corporate town - bentonville, arkansas fueled by wal-mart corporate. but the entire northwest arkansas area with corporate headquarters of tyson and jb hunt and a large state university. it’s an astonishing american story that most people are unaware of. i first came in 1974 and had to drive an hour to get to a mcdonald’s - not anymore.