[masterkomodo]

I need to know how mount magazine in arkansas got its name. If any 1 has any info PLZ post it asap. I only need to know how it got its name. I already know that its the tallest mountain in arkansas. But i have to know how it got its name.

PLZ REPLY ASAP

[SteF95]

French hunters and explorers named most sites along the Arkansas River in the 1600s and 1700s. However, as waves of new settlers entered the Arkansas Territory, some names changed. In 1819, botanist Thomas Nuttall wrote of his observations as he traveled up the river. Near Dardanelle Rock a prominent landmark was called Magazin for its shape resembling a storehouse. That mountain is now called Mount Nebo. All of the mountains between the Arkansas and Petit Jean Rivers were called the Magazines. As Nuttall continued up river, he wrote that "a lofty ridge appears to the south called by the French the Cassetete, or Tomahawk Mountain." Later surveyors and mapmakers called it Reveille or Revolee Mountain. Eventually, each Magazine mountain had an official name with the largest of them representing the whole range.

--------this info was taken from a website about the mountain..........