Arkansas Travelers : Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804-1834 /
""I reckon stranger you have not been used much to traveling in the woods." This remark from a hunter to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft as he trekked through the Ozark backcountry in late 1818 is one of many entertaining and eye-opening encounters between Arkansas travelers and settlers depic...
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Fayetteville :
The University of Arkansas Press,
2019.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Eyewitnesses to geographical transformation
- A very great natural curiosity: William Dunbar on the Ouachita River, 1804-1805
- A greenhorn in the Ozarks: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, 1818-1819
- A view from the banks of the Arkansas River: Thomas Nuttall, 1818-1820
- A savage sort of country: George W. Featherstonhaugh's Arkansas excursion, 1834
- Deep mapping travelers' perceptions of the Arkansas past