Explorers William Dunbar and Dr. George Hunter departed from St. Catherine’s Landing on the east bank of the Mississippi River to explore the Ouachita River in the new Louisiana Purchase, of which Arkansas was a part. The reports the explorers sent describing the landscapes and people of the area were the first details of the newly acquired territory to reach Thomas Jefferson.
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