December 8, 2010

From November 1818 to February 1819, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft explored land from Potosi, Missouri, southwest to the White River, northwest to near Springfield, Missouri, then south by canoe on the White River to present-day Batesville (Independence County), and finally northeast again to Missouri. In 1821, his Journal of a Tour into the Interior of Missouri and Arkansaw, describing Arkansas Ozarks geography, vegetation, wildlife, and inhabitants, was published in London, England.