W E “P” Reed (1869–1956) was a hunting guide. Sometimes men from big cities with companies like Armour & Co would come to Mena to hunt. The fourth man from the left in the background is a neighbor and friend, Willard Reid. That’s not his vehicle. He didn’t own one and didn’t drive. His son,Continue reading “Arkansas Hunters From the Past: Polk County, William Eppy “W. E.” “P” Reed”
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Early Arkansas Hunters: 1847 Lawrence County
Settler Uriah Cole’s family built a house in 1847 and cleared land for a farm in Lawrence County. After completing his chores, young Cole hunted for sport, “I amused myself by hunting, and never was out of sight of deer. I have seen 500 wild turkeys in a drove and killed them till I wasContinue reading “Early Arkansas Hunters: 1847 Lawrence County”
Early Arkansas Hunters: Arkansas Territory 1818.
The French hunter Fogle came to colonial Arkansas in 1769 and settled on the Saline River. His descendent, Jacque Fogle, was born on an island in the Ouachita River in 1818. The Fogles harvested deer, bear, and fish on the Saline and Ouachita Rivers, which he then carried to market at Monroe, Louisiana, via canoe. Continue reading “Early Arkansas Hunters: Arkansas Territory 1818.”
Arkansas Hunters from the Past: Woods Stroud in December 1897
Woods Stroud from Rogers 1897
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”
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”
Arkansas Wildlife History 