We had a great time with a GREAT group of Nuttall field trippers this past Saturday, April 27, 2019, 200 years after his visit to the area. Nuttall-interested folks from Kansas, southern Arkansas, & Stillwater, OK traveled to Poteau and…
Nuttall’s descriptions of the Arkansas Territory in 1819–of what will become eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas–are of a time when this part of the world was on the cusp of significant change. Settlement and changing land use will transform the…
Guillaume Delisle was a French cartographer (1675-1726) who became known for popular and reasonably accurate maps of the newly explored Americas. While he did not explore the Americas in person, he was one of the first cartographers to take a…
One month until the 200th anniversary of Nuttall’s arrival in the Poteau River Valley (April 24, 1819). One month until our 3rd annual exploration retracing his steps from the mouth of the Poteau River at the Arkansas (Belle Point, the…
David Holcomb, via Facebook: Really great FB site and glad to find it. I live in Little Rock but we have a small family farm (62 acres) outside of Mansfield, AR, about 14 miles from the OK border. We are…
The poet Gary Snyder tells about a visit he made to Australia: “We were traveling by truck over dirt track west from Alice Springs in the company of a Pintubi elder named Jimmy Tjungurrayi. As we rolled along the dusty…
From Erik Ditzler, via Facebook: Thank you for adding me to the group. I am a park ranger at Arkansas Post, which is one of the places Nuttall visited in his expedition. I would love to speak to some of…
Congrats to John Lovett (Fort Smith Times Record reporter)- his Nuttall article has been picked up nationally by Sacramento Bee, Kansas City Star, and others. Getting the word out re Nuttall Bicentennial! #nuttallbicentennial
Hey, Nuttall group–let the rest of us hear from you! What Nuttall-related exploring have you been doing? Reading? Other learning? What would you like to see and learn more about?
Really nice informative article on Thomas Nuttall and our tour by John Lovett on front page of today’s Fort Smith (AR) Times Record. And helping promote future tours as well! Thanks, John! Read the article here. One personal correction: I…
