Messing with a River
Red River Landing, Point Coupee Parish, Louisiana today. The Red River once entered the Mississippi River at the place where southern...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Mar 29
Steamboat on a Gamble
Named by W.H. McWhorter for a town in his home state of Wisconsin, the Waukesha was one of a half-handful of stern-wheelers that plied...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Mar 21
Jim Turner lost its steam
A reader sent me an email about a steamboat wreck he couldn't remember the name of. I know of a few, and the one he was looking for was...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Feb 19
Long Lost Lafayette
This 1839 postal road map shows Lost Prairie, Lafayette Courthouse, and Conway connected via the Red River in Lafayette County (Miller...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
An early Bridge
A different view of Colbert's Hotel and Stage stand, as seen by a sketch artist for the Handbook of North Texas, published in 1886....
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Old Shed Road
The only extant depiction of Shed Road I've found, so far, comes from a 1926 article in the Bossier Banner Progress. Bossier City didn't...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- May 15, 2022
Just floating an idea... literally
An aero-trolley at Turner Falls, Oklahoma. This may have been the general idea of the proposed ferry over the Red River. Oklahoma.net In...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jul 26, 2021
Mansura mapping
I have never seen Mansura, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, well-represented on any map prior to satellite data. But we can figure out why...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jul 11, 2021
Jefferson devolution
Jefferson, the county seat of Marion County, Texas, became an inland port after the first federal Red River raft (massive log jam)...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 29, 2021
Murder Mystery
I was looking around at some former ferry sites along the Red River and saw Thompson's Ferry at Horseshoe Bend in Love County, Oklahoma...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 28, 2021
Trace of Trammel
In 1838, when the United States and the Republic of Texas surveyed the boundary between the countries along the Index Line (today's...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 28, 2021
100th Meridian
In August of 1859, surveyors marked the 100th Meridian at the Red River - the line that marks the eastern boundary of the Texas panhandle...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 28, 2021
Red River City
According to this map filed by the Houston & Texas Railroad with the Texas General Land Office, their rail line was proposed to extend to...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jul 21, 2020
Mexican Texas or Texan Mexico
Visit this fantastic map of Mexican Texas in 1835 (mislabeled as Republic of Texas) in the Barry Ruderman collection,...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 3, 2019
Not the right Red River
I found a couple of 1872 sketches of the “Red River” by Alfred Rudolph Waud. Waud was an English illustrator who worked in the last half...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 27, 2019
Paddle Wheelers on the Red, part I
Paddle wheeler “Amy Hewes” on the Red River (no date), but most likely this picture was taken in the 1940s. The “Amy Hewes” was built in...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Nov 13, 2018
Spanish Bluff
Reader Ben Jones graciously shared a vantage point of the Red River that’s rarely seen nowadays – Spanish Bluff on the southern bank of...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Oct 18, 2018
Stage Coach Times
Adverts in old newspapers help to provide context to history, such as how much the Red River Valley was interconnected long before our...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 23, 2018
Transcontinental mapping
The northern portion of John Pope’s 1854 map to survey a possible transcontinental route through Texas marks the Cross Timbers between...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- May 30, 2018
Abilene Cattle Trail
An English cowboy paid to have his picture taking at Red River Station in Montague County, Texas before heading up the Abilene Trail...
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