At this point 200 years ago–in mid-February 1819–Nuttall was still at Arkansas Post, seeking a boat to take him upstream, up the Arkansas River (:100). In about a week he’ll depart, and, a little over two months later, on April…
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…
During Nuttall’s sojourn in the Red River Valley, he mentions but did not visit a salt spring on the Kiamichi: “In a northern bend of the Kiamesha, about 30 miles from its mouth, I am informed, there exists a very…
By Jona Tucker On January 1st, 1819 Thomas Nuttall was just above present-day Memphis, proceeding slowly down the Mississippi River by boat. No mention of black-eyed peas, champagne, or even an expression of, “Happy New Year!” (When did that become…
Greetings Nuttall-ites! Happy New Year! As our calendar turns in a couple of days to 2019, we enter the actual 200-year anniversary of Nuttall’s journey in the Arkansas territory. On this day, Dec. 30, 1818, Nuttall was still on the…
Jona Tucker will kick off 2019 with a presentation about Thomas Nuttall on January 3 in Oklahoma City for the Oklahoma Native Plant Society. Everyone is invited. The meeting will be held in…
By Jona Tucker Albert Bierstadt wasn’t born when Thomas Nuttall traveled into what became Arkansas and Oklahoma in 1819, but the Gilcrease Museum’s exhibition Albert Bierstadt: Witness to a Changing West currently on display in Tulsa (through February 10) is a great place…
