When visiting the region sometime between 1810 and 1815, an unknown Frenchman proclaimed, “This is, without a doubt, the most beautiful and agreeable part of the United States, both in point of [the] temperature of climate and fertility of [the] soil.” His comments certainly served as a positive recruiting tool after so many other observers had damned Arkansas’ “sickly” country.[1]
[1] “Soil and Climate of the American Territories: Translation of a Letter from an Enlightened French Immigrant,” in The Port-Folio, Vol 4, Issue 4, (Philadelphia: H. Maxwell, 1817).
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