Red River Landing, Point Coupee Parish, Louisiana today. The Red River once entered the Mississippi River at the place where southern...

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...

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...

This 1839 postal road map shows Lost Prairie, Lafayette Courthouse, and Conway connected via the Red River in Lafayette County (Miller...

Jefferson, the county seat of Marion County, Texas, became an inland port after the first federal Red River raft (massive log jam)...