Arkansas Wildlife History
with Dr. Buckley T. Foster
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Big Lake Club Deer Hunt
As followers have seen in my previous postings, this club was one of the earliest clubs founded in Arkansas by Arkansawyers (1886). It was located 14 miles by rail southeast of Little Rock, between present-day Wrightsville and Woodson. Forty-one of Little Rock’s elite formed the club for hunting and fishing and to buy and sell…
Big Lake Club or Big Lake Sporting Club, 1886
This is an image of the cover of the original bylaws of the Big Lake Club, founded in 1886 near Wrightsville and Woodson, approximately 14 miles south of Little Rock. This should not be confused with the Big Lake Shooting Club near Manila in northeast Arkansas. It was one of the earliest hunting land-owning clubs…
Big Lake Club (1886-1943)
This incredible photograph is a member of the Big Lake Club, which existed from 1886 to 1943 outside Little Rock, near Wrightsville, Arkansas. This is the first time this picture has appeared in public. There is a series of pictures of club members, their dogs, and shotguns, posing in a studio. They are in full…
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