PINE BLUFF • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Pine Bluff

... feel the current of the Arkansas, to which river they returned and with such intention, he packed his dress and tender and proceeded to Ft. Smith, starting above that city at the mouth of the Poteau river, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, January 12th, 1882, for a four hundred mile run to Pine Bluff. The weather was cold and the chill of Rocky Mountain snow was in the river. The course was rather lonely, winding amid bleak hills and for long stretches there would be small signs of life. At the end of the first day's ...

— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton