#foodways – Arkansas Wildlife History

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”

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”