Looking at the shallow twists and turns of the Red River, its hard to imagine that ... Although it lasted barely 50 years, the age of the steamboat forged a commercial network between the United ...
"By 1910, only a handful of steamboats still navigated the Red River, and by the close of the decade there were none." A special thanks goes to the Northwest Louisiana Archives at LSUS for ...
The Red River Expedition, commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson, aimed to explore the Red River Valley and its surrounding territories. Led by Captain Richard Sparks, Thomas Freeman ...