Point de Sucre
On April 24, 1819 Nuttall continued his ascent of the Arkansas. In the morning, he passed “the hills of Lee’s creek” and at about noon arrived at the garrison at Belle Point (the first Fort Smith). “Rising, as it were,…
Steve
The Life Aquatic
While the prairies of the Arkansas and the Poteau river valleys will be a major focus of our Nuttall trek, we’ll also give some love and attention to the river and its vegetation, and to natural lakes (oxbows) and wetlands.…
Cool prairie restoration art
Lovely and very cool prairie restoration art. Check it out at
Nuttall in Oklahoma 2
A few bits to whet your appetite from the journal, as Nuttall is traveling into present-day Oklahoma, up the Arkansas River from Fort Smith: “About breakfast time, we passed the mouth of the rivulet or brook, called by the French…
Nuttall in Oklahoma
Nuttall in Oklahoma–A friend reading Nuttall’s journal said to me “I didn’t know he [Nuttall] spent so much time in Oklahoma!” Perhaps it is the title: “Travels into the Arkansa Territory” that throws people off. In 1819, most of what…
Nuttall at KTC!
Aquatic Oklahoma
Nuttall on aquatic eastern OK in 1819–before the age of reservoirs: My presentation Thursday this week at the Oklahoma Clean Lakes & Watersheds meeting in Stillwater. 2nd field trip following Nuttall in Fort Smith and through the Poteau River valley…
Ernest Jesse Palmer – On Nuttall’s Trail in 1927
Just as we approach the bicentennial of Nuttall’s Arkansa journey and are re-exploring his path, so too did others retrace his trail, at the centennial–100 years after. So it was that a little more than 100 years after Nuttall’s visit,…