A Journal of Travels into the Arkansas Territory During the Year 1819 (Arkansas Classics)

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That is the famous naturalist Thomas Nuttall’s only surviving complete journal of his American scientific explorations. Covering his travels in Arkansas and what’s now Oklahoma, it’s pivotal to an understanding of the Old Southwest within the early nineteenth century, when the US was once taking inventory of its acquisitions from the Louisiana Purchase. The account follows Nuttall’s route from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, down the Ohio River to its mouth, then down the Mississippi River to the Arkansas Post, and up the Arkansas River, with a side commute to the Red River. It is full of valuable details at the plants, animals, and geology of the region, in addition to penetrating observations of the resident native tribes, the military establishment at Fort Smith, the arrival of the first governor of Arkansas Territory, and the beginnings of white settlement.

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