In describing the lifestyle of families living along the White River near the Missouri border at Sugar-Loaf Prairie in December 1818, Schoolcraft noted that “these people subsist partly by agriculture, and partly by hunting. They raise corn for bread, and for feeding their horses…but none for exportation. No cabbages, beets, onions, potatoes, turnips, or otherContinue reading “Early Arkansas Hunters: 1818 Sugarloaf Prairie”
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Early Arkansas Hunters: 1942 Crow Hunter Robert “Gillam” Lawton in Pine Bluff
1942 Pine Bluff Resident Robert (Gillam) Lawton (b. SEP 23, 1877) is seen after a field hunt with his crow hunting set up, complete with a stuffed owl, crow decoy, and one alley cat (in his hands along with a dead crow). He sure does seem like he is enjoying himself. Source: Ancestry.com #arkansas #arkansashuntingContinue reading “Early Arkansas Hunters: 1942 Crow Hunter Robert “Gillam” Lawton in Pine Bluff”
Arkansas’s First Statewide Game Warden: Earnest V. Visart
Not long after his appointment, Earnest Vivian Visart went after songbirds in people’s homes because keeping any birds, except game birds, in captivity was unlawful. Raising game birds required a license. He went after Sunday hunters, too. This stance probably hurt the warden’s reputation. Some Arkansawyers thought the actions petty. One newspaper claimed that “thereContinue reading “Arkansas’s First Statewide Game Warden: Earnest V. Visart”
Early Arkansas Hunters: 1942 Boone County Coon Hunters
(L to R) Charley Bell, Clell Deakins (b. 13 Jul 1908), Clarence Bell, Walker Murray, Mike Murray, Lester Parker, Pete Sims, Loyd McDonald, Virgil Parker Source: Ancestry.com #arkansas #arkansashunting #arkansasoutdoors #vintagearkansas #vintagehunting #vintagehunter #vintagehunters #arkansasconservation #arkansaswildlifehistory #arkansashistory #wildlifehistory #envhistory #conservationlaws #gameandfish #hunting #coonhunting #coondogs Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Arkansas Predator Hunting & Trapping
Early Arkansas Conservation: 1909 Attempts to Create State Game Wardens
The lack of an effective enforcement system was among the most significant problems with Arkansas game and fish laws since their inception in 1875. For years, local county officers enforced the recent game and fish laws. Many thought these statutes unimportant, did not have the time outside their regular duties to chase game violators, orContinue reading “Early Arkansas Conservation: 1909 Attempts to Create State Game Wardens”
Early Arkansas Hunters: 1940 Garland County Deer Hunters
(C) Andy Brown, (R) William Porter “Ples” Brown (b. 27 DECEMBER 1887) (L) Unknown Hot Springs, AR, c. Dec 1940, back from deer hunting Source: Ancestry.com #vintagehunting #vintagehunter #vintagehunters #deerhunting #deerhunters #huntingdogs #doublebarrelshotgun #huntingishistory #hunting #arkansas #arkansashunting #arkansashunters #arkansashistory #huntinghistory #arkansaswildlife #thenaturalstate #earlyarkansas #arkansasoutdoors #arkansaswildlifehistory #winchester #hotspringsar #garlandcounty
Early Arkansas Conservation Laws: 1905
In January 1905, Senator Thompson introduced a bill adding rabbits to the allowable game for sale list, as T. L. Pennington wanted a few months before. Representative Keith of Benton County introduced the same measure in the House but limited it to his county only. A few days later, another bill, House Bill Number 18,Continue reading “Early Arkansas Conservation Laws: 1905”
Early Arkansas Hunters: 1930s Rabbit Hunters–Toll and Roushall
William Andrew Toll, Jacob B “Jake ” Roushall, Joseph Jacob “Joe” Roushall, Charles Leslie Stipp, and Wilson Roe (“Roe”) Roushall 1930s Rabbit Hunters in Prairie or Union County, Arkansas
Early Arkansas Non-Resident Hunters
Even at the turn of the twentieth century, many outsiders still viewed Arkansas as one of the last frontiers: wilderness or backwoods, where a man and his gun or rod could challenge himself. According to many Americans, the great hunter was a real, true, self-sufficient man. He respected the hunt and honored his quarry. ManyContinue reading “Early Arkansas Non-Resident Hunters”
1897 Prairie Chicken: Arkansas
In an 1897 Forest and Stream article entitled “The Prairie Chicken-Past, Present, and Future,” the reporter claimed that despite the human and natural attacks on pinnated grouse, “it preserves its existence and numbers to an astonishing extent.” However, in Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, Louisiana, and Indiana, “it remains in greatly reduced numbers or is notContinue reading “1897 Prairie Chicken: Arkansas”
Arkansas Wildlife History 