Tom Dillard: Visitor in 1810-12 provides educated look at early Arkansas

A rich French Creole named Louis Bringier of New Orleans visited Arkansas in 1810-1812 and took notes. Later he published a long description of his tour, providing a primitive sort of geological survey of much of what would become Arkansas Territory in seven years.

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