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Unfortunately for newly arrived American hunters, they fell into an ongoing power struggle when they arrived in the Arkansas River Valley in the early 1800s. According to historian Kathleen Duval, nations like the Osage and the Quapaw had long sought the best trading avenues for their people to obtain manufactured goods.  However, trading networks andContinue reading “Early Red and White Hunters in the Arkansas Territory: Part I”