Thanks, so much, everyone. This HAS been very interesting. To preserve the integrity of my dad's memory of his granddad's words, I am going to just stick with "going up the Arkansas" as it seems pretty obvious there were several parts of trails which might have been part of that particular journey. I will make some notes in the footnotes, though, from everything you all have posted and as I mentioned before, YA'LL will be credited in my THANK YEWS!**BG**

luvya and thanks a bunch,

kat