Steamboat Captain Igo provided testimony in the case, Oklahoma v. Texas about his time traversing the Red River.

For Thomas Jefferson, the most important Corps of Discovery in the Louisiana Purchase was the expedition up the Red River of 1806.

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

The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1873 claimed several victims in Shreveport, including Eugene Woodruff, who removed the Raft of the Red River.

The Cossatot River derives from a French word meaning"crushed head," and in 1833, it was to be spanned by a toll bridge.

Decommissioned in 1926, the Gardie Eastman may well have been the last steamboat to traverse the entirety of the Red River.

I was pleasantly surprised to recognize that the Jefferson to Shreveport Waterway still exists as Twelve Mile Bayou.

Sykes (Sikes) Ferry Road passing over Dorcheat Bayou north of Minden in central Webster Parish, Louisiana.

This report by Captain Henry Shreve explains that the Red River Raft removal is complete. Kinda.

De la Harpe and his men built a wooden trading post at the "abandoned village of the Nassonite chief."

A ticket reserved passage on the steam boat Relief, which paddled down the river from White Oak Shoals (Arkansas) to Natchitoches.

Was Cane River in Natchitoches really once the Red River?

The Sale and Murphy Canal along the Red River once linked Louisiana and Arkansas around the upper portions of the Great Raft.

Mound City in Red River County, Texas once welcomed steamboats in the 1870s

Shreve's Cut of the Mississippi River led to engineering the Red and Atchafalaya Rivers, and the victim was Red River Landing.

Fort Towson in today’s Choctaw County, was established in 1824.