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246 Southwestern Historical Quarterly
of young lawyers, politicians, and members of Congress,3" of course of
the first families-a set of damned upstart nigger drivers, fire eaters, &c.
There are but few good physiognomies in town. We took dinner at the
Anthony House, the first good dinner since we left the boat. We have
camped out but twice in our journey. It is now Friday night.4o The 1st
night we camped, the 2nd slept at the Widow Smith's at Shell Lake, 3rd
at a Mr. Moore's, 4th at Col. Hurlestone's, 5th camp, 6th took a house,
and today are at Little Rock and will stay here all night.41
December 16. Saw paroquets for the first time, on the Bayou des Rockes.42
[Undated.] On the night of the 17th we stop'd at the house of a Mr.
Bishop,43 a mile west of Centre Point, Arkansas, and were delightfully
entertained by our host and a friend of his. We had negro dances and
music to our heart's content.
December 22. Arrived in Texas on "Forefathers' Day."44 Friday.
Crossed the river about four o'clock P. M. When in the middle, Allen de-
livered an "extempore" upon the fruits of our mission. We rode six
miles from the river and put up at the house of a Mrs. Epperson, widow.45
We are detained here today-raining, December 23, Saturday. Gave
my dirty shirts to a negro to wash. We crossed Red River at the mouth
of Mill Creek48 having crossed a portion of the Indian Territory4< to do so.
3"Lawrie must mean, in present-day terms, members of the State Legis-
lature.
40December 15.
411 have been unable to identify any of these Arkansas citizens of 1854.
Shell Lake is shown on the maps as a lake in southwestern Crittenden
County, a Mississippi River county.
42This is probably the present Rock Creek in Pulaski County, in which
Little Rock is situated. Abert in 1845 had noticed paroquets along the
Arkansas River near its confluence with the Canadian.-"Journal of Lieu-
tenant J. W. Abert, from Bent's Fort to St. Louis, in 1845," in Documents
Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States, VIII, No. 438, 1-75
(1845-46), 72-73. Paroquets are named, along with other birds, as in 1840
"giving variety to the list of birds" in Texas.--A History of Texas or the
Emigrant's Guide to the New Republic by a Resident Emigrant Late from
the United States (New York, 1845), 195.
43In a letter dated January 18, 1944, Miss Georgia Clark, reference li-
brarian at the University of Arkansas, wrote as follows to W. M. Hepburn,
librarian of Purdue University: "The Mr. Bishop about whom you inquired
for Mr. V. E. Gibbens was Nathan Bishop. He owned three hundred twenty
acres of land secured from the State of Arkansas under the Industrial
Land Act. . . . When he died, he left his widow Sarah, a daughter, Mrs.
M. T. Bradley, and a son, Nathan C. Bishop. The above information was
obtained through the courtesy of Mr. C. G. Hughes, Nashville, Arkansas.
He knew the name of the person who now owns the farm formerly owned
by Mr. Bishop and got it by referring to the abstract on the land."
44"The anniversary of the day (December 21, 1620) on which the Pilgrim
Fathers landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts. On account of a mistake in
reckoning the change from Old Style to New Style, it has generally been
celebrated on the 22nd."-Webster's Intercollegiate Dictionary.
45Not identifiable.
46"Mill Creek rises about a mile north of Avery in eastern part of Red
River County; flows northeasterly and easterly 14 miles; unites with Red
River (tributary to the Mississippi) about 10 miles north of De Kalb in
northwestern part of Bowie County."-Glenn A. Gray (Director), Gazetteer
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