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Early Arkansas Hunters: White River 1818

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: White River 1818”

Arkansas Hunters from the Past: Frank Leslie from Gillett in 1895

Frank Leslie (b. 1873) was a longtime cook and camp manager for Jacobs Lake Hunting Club On Jacobs Lake NW of Gillett. Today it is known as the Tuff Nutt Hunting Club. Leslie was killed in a train accident in 1896. This picture is from about 1895. Image from Ancestry.com

Early Arkansas Hunters: 1820s Benjamin F. Laynes and Lanesport

Around the same time Benjamin Crowley was living and working on the high ground that soon bore his name, another Benjamin moved into Arkansas Territory, but much farther to the southeast, nearly into the province of Tejas, Mexico.   Benjamin F. Layne moved into the territory near present-day Rocky Comfort in the extreme southwest corner ofContinue reading “Early Arkansas Hunters: 1820s Benjamin F. Laynes and Lanesport”

Arkansas Hunters From The Past: 1910s-1920s

Joseph A. “Joe” Green in Faulkner County is seated on the bottom left of the first picture of an Arkansas hunting camp that dates sometime between 1910 and 1920. (A car enthusiast could probably better date the photo with a look at the car in the background, left) These men have hunting horns, pump andContinue reading “Arkansas Hunters From The Past: 1910s-1920s”

Early Red and White Hunters in the Arkansas Territory: Part II

Early Red and White Hunters in the Arkansas Territory: Part II. They fought each other over hunting supremacy in the Arkansas River Valley and beyond.

Early Arkansas Trappers and Traders: Ecore A Fabre 1782 and 1819

In 1782, the Spanish government sent Jean Baptiste Filhiol to establish a post in the Ouachita region, and he chose Ecore a Fabre, today known as Camden.  Here, early French trappers and traders had rendezvoused on the high bluff above where the Caddo Trace crossed the Ouachita River.  Filhiol moved the Post a few yearsContinue reading “Early Arkansas Trappers and Traders: Ecore A Fabre 1782 and 1819”

Early Arkansas Hunters: 1780 Standlee Family

Kentucky long hunter John Standlee crossed the Mississippi River sometime between 1778 and 1780.  Standlee lived on the Cossatot River in southwest Arkansas with his brothers Benjamin and William, hunting for the market.  After moving back to Kentucky and Missouri, the Standlees settled down and began families.  John Standlee wished to make his permanent homeContinue reading “Early Arkansas Hunters: 1780 Standlee Family”

Early Arkansas Environment: Northern Soldier’s Opinion 1862

During the Civil War, many Northern soldiers commented about the Arkansas countryside.  “I doubt if few of the habitable portions of the globe presents a more dreary and uninviting wilderness,” commented one fellow.  One Iowan remarked that this was the “roughest, meanest country God ever made.”  “We are in a perfect wilderness,” wrote an Illinoisan,Continue reading “Early Arkansas Environment: Northern Soldier’s Opinion 1862”