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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Milson, Andrew J.
Titre(s) : Arkansas travelers [Texte imprimé] : geographies of exploration and perception, 1804-1834 / Andrew J. Milson
Publication : Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2019
Description matérielle : xii, 277 pages : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Arkansas history
Lien à la collection : Arkansas history
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
""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 depicted in this book. Arkansas Travelers: Geographies of Exploration
and Perception, 1804-1834, is the first book to capture the fascinating stories of
William Dunbar, Thomas Nuttall, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, and George William Featherstonhaugh
between two covers. These four travelers explored Arkansas during a transformative
period between the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and statehood in 1836. Historian and
geographer Andrew J. Milson takes readers on an enthralling tour with these travelers
as they faced treacherous rivers, drunken scoundrels, and repulsive food. But Milson
also cautions that the dramatic imagery, provocative epithets, and frightful anecdotes
common in travel narratives too often result in distorted geographical understandings
of a place. Milson explains how the language in each of these travelers' published
narratives reveals perceptions of places and landscapes that can be mapped. When mapped,
travelers' perceptions reveal not just what the traveler said, but where he said it.
The resulting maps of these four travelers' perceptions of Arkansas illustrate the
places experienced and perceived rather than simply the spaces they traversed. This
geographical focus on the history of these spaces yields a deeper understanding -
a deeper map - of the Arkansas past"
Sujet(s) : Voyageurs -- Arkansas (États-Unis)
Arkansas (États-Unis)
Arkansas (États-Unis ; cours d'eau)
Genre ou forme : Récits de voyages -- 19e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
976.704 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - Arkansas - 1803-1836
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781682260968. - ISBN 1682260968
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45769155b
Notice n° :
FRBNF45769155
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
