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Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe
French explorer
Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe[1][2] (4 February in Saint-Malo – 26 September ) was a French explorer who is credited with using the name "Little Rock" in for a stone outcropping on the bank of the Arkansas River used by early travelers as a landmark.
Little Rock, Arkansas was subsequently named for the landmark.
La Harpe was the first known French explorer to set foot in the future state of Oklahoma.
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Explorations in Oklahoma
In , La Harpe left France, along with 40 men, and established a trading post in April on the Red River near what is now Texarkana, Texas. This was near the center of the Caddo Confederacy.
La Harpe hoped to establish trade relationships with more distant and unknown Indian tribes and, thus, on 11 August , he set off with 9 men, including 3 Caddo guides, and 22 horses loaded with trade goods to visit a Wichita village to the northwest.[3] (This same year, another French