The French hunter Fogle came to colonial Arkansas in 1769 and settled on the Saline River. His descendent, Jacque Fogle, was born on an island in the Ouachita River in 1818. The Fogles harvested deer, bear, and fish on the Saline and Ouachita Rivers, which he then carried to market at Monroe, Louisiana, via canoe. The family cleared a small plot on the Saline River where they grew maize each year, stored it in “pens,” and used it to make cornbread through the colder weather. Their primary source of food remained wild game, however.[1]
[1] Y. W. Etheridge, “Pioneers of Ashley County,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 16 (Spring 1957): 64.
Arkansas Wildlife History 