 After about two years, he decided to move downriver to the more central site of Prairie des Canots, present-day Monroe, Louisiana.These locations were noted in 1804 by the Hunter-Dunbar Expedition that explored the Ouachita River.By 1819, Jesse Bowman, of future Alamo fame, was living at Ecore a Fabri, while the Tate brothers—Andrew, Richard, and George—came up the Ouachita on keelboats.