Arkansas Travelers: Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804-1834 Milson Andrew J.
Winner, 2020 J.G. Ragsdale Book Award from the Arkansas Historical Association "I reckon stranger you have not been used much to traveling in the woods," a hunter remarked to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft as…
Specifikacia Arkansas Travelers: Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804-1834 Milson Andrew J.
Winner, 2020 J.G. Ragsdale Book Award from the Arkansas Historical Association "I reckon stranger you have not been used much to traveling in the woods," a hunter remarked to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft as he trekked through the Ozark backcountry in late 1818. The ensuing exchange is one of many compelling encounters between Arkansas travelers and settlers depicted in Arkansas Travelers: Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804-1834. This book is the first to integrate the stories of four travelers who explored Arkansas during the transformative period between the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and statehood in 1836: William Dunbar, Thomas Nuttall, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, and George William Featherstonhaugh.In addition to gathering their tales of treacherous rivers, drunken scoundrels, and repulsive food, historian and geographer Andrew J. Milson explores the