Arkansas

 is an elderly mad sniper, holed up in Minefield, firing without warning at trespassers. This sniper seems to like to target and blow up the vehicles scattered about the area, causing large explosions and releasing radiation. He is in a three story mostly-destroyed office building at the North end of town. If you hide next to the building itself, on ground level where he can't see you, he'll come downstairs. He has an abundance of .308 ammo. If killed he will drop a key (the Ridgefield Gate key, being the town's real name) that will grant access to all of Minefield's houses. For some reason, he prefers to live in the ruined building in the centre of the town rather than in the large houses which he has the key for.

Arkansas is possibly one of the original surviving residents of Minefield before the slavers invaded--in particular, Gibson House (the house with the bloody hand print on the door). The child's room there is the only room in the town with the same objects as those lying by the bed on the second floor of the office building: crutches, surgical tubing, a medical brace, and cherry bombs. He is also probably the one who set all the mines in the first place. He may also be the cause of many wastelander's beliefs that Minefield is haunted.

He is also one of the targets for enslavement that Eulogy put a special bounty on.

Appearances
 only appears in Fallout 3.

Corpse Loot

 * Sniper Rifle
 * .308 Caliber Round (3)
 * Ridgefield Gate key

Related Quests
Strictly Business

The Wasteland Survival Guide



Behind the Scenes
The name Arkansas may be a reference to the National Guard Sniper School at Camp Robinson in Arkansas, or a nod to legendary Marine sniper Carlos Hathcock from Arkansas. It may also be a reference to a sniper nicknamed "Arkansas" who served under the military adventurer William Walker in his attempt to control Nicaragua (as detailed in the book "Tycoon's War", by Stephen Dando-Collins).

Bugs

 * If one is to kill Arkansas, there's a chance that this will register with the Strictly Business quest as being captured.
 * If you free Arkansas from Paradise Falls after enslaving him, for some reason, he will still have his Sniper Rifle. (And he will start to kill his fellow escaped slaves on the PC version(confirmed on PS3). Let the other slaves escape first!)
 * I attempted to shoot the gun out of Arkansas's hand in VATs and after doing so he completely disappeared. I searched everywhere for his body.  I didn't kill him, he just completely vanished.  I did however, find his gun laying there on the ground but it wasn't broken(PS3 verison)