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St. Francis River Native Boat-1890

This is a photograph of an Arkansas pirogue on the St. Francis River, taken around 1890 for a tourism publication.

Early Arkansas Hunters: Randolph County circa 1880 Abt 1880 Randolph County Craven Carl Wilson (L) (b. 2 FEBRUARY 1846) and John Cox. Looks like these fellows had a tent to sleep in, a dog to hunt with, and found some rabbits. It is tough to tell, but Cox, on the right, looks like he has a…

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…

Early Arkansas Hunters-1915

William Daniel Cobb was born in Dyer, Tennessee, in 1861. By 1900, he was living in Jonesboro, Craighead County, Arkansas, and worked in the newspaper business. W. D. had a brother, Rev. J. D. C. Cobb, who also worked in the newspaper business in Jonesboro and preached at the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. I cannot tell…

Early Arkansas Hunters: Clarence Haer, White County, Arkansas

White County Trapper Clarence Haer (pronounced HARE) (August 17, 1901-March 17, 1963) in the 1930s with several pelts. Haer has a rifle, his dog, and a carbide lamp. In 1930, he was listed as a farmer living with his wife, Dovie, and four children (Laurine, Ralph, Juanita, and Carlos).