June - 2024

Jun 27

The Ozark Trail, aka the original Route 66

The northwestern portions of the Ozark Trail were subsumed by the federal highway project designated as US 66, aka the original Route 66.

Jun 17

Coates' Bluff, the Original Shreveport

Coates' Bluff was Shreveport's original settlement, the site of a trading post within a Caddoan village.

Jun 12

First Map of the Mississippi

According to Jacques Marquette in 1673, this is the "First Map of the Mississippi River."

Jun 10

More Warren's Trading Post Maps

I found two other maps of Texas, both from the period after Texas statehood (1845), that shows Warren's trading posts.

Jun 5

Warren's Trading House at Salt Creek?

Pressler's 1867 shows Warren's Trading House sandwiched between Panther and Salt Creek (TX), and near Red Creek (OK), but not on Mud Creek.

Jun 2

The Old Washington Tavern

Built about 1830, the Washington Tavern served as a stage coach station as well as the nearest American boarding house to Mexican Texas.

Jun 2

A Map about an unrealized Future

A map about an unrealized future, drawn to indicate where the Texas & Pacific Railroad would pass once it was built west of Shreveport.