Arkansas Travelers

In Arkansas Travelers the historical geographer Andrew J. Milson takes a fascinating look at nature and human society on the Arkansas frontier during the early nineteenth century, based on the travel journals of four explorers who visited the region between 1804 and 1834. William Dunbar, Thomas Nuttall, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, and George William Featherstonhaugh are eyewitnesses to the vast transformations in the region during the period beginning with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and ending with the territory's statehood in 1836. Dunbar was the first of the four travelers to investigate what is today the state of Arkansas, ascending and descending the Ouachita River from its mouth to Hot Springs in 1804–1805. In 1819 Nuttall, a celebrated English naturalist, traversed much of central Arkansas, while Schoolcraft explored the northernmost parts of the then new U.S. territory. Featherstonhaugh arrived later, crossing the region on a northeast-southwest line in 1834 and continuing

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