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Joseph Bonne was born on April 15, 1793, along the Arkansas River to Michel Bonne, a French trader, and Marie Louise, a Quapaw Indian woman. He was baptized by a visiting priest at Arkansas Post, the first settlement established by the French in 1686 at the mouth of the Arkansas River. ....