#trappers – Arkansas Wildlife History

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”