Texarkana started life before 1860 by way of the steam railroad and a steam packet boat.

The mouth of the Red River was at a place that no longer exists: Red River Landing in Pointe Coupee Parish.

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

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

I decided to take a look at the life of the Beeswing, a steamer on the Red River, after finding a receipt from 1844.

Epperson's Ferry served the Trammel Trace across the Sulphur River in Bowie County.

If you search "Cash Point" in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, on a map today, you'd find RV Park bearing the name, and not much else.

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.

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

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

The Great Raft of the Red River: A Massive Log Jam with its own Eco System

A wreck in the Red River is an archeological site.

An announcement of a stern wheeler going to Beal's Landing in Fannin County.

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

The construction of Denison Dam restricted accessing between Texas and Oklahoma. Bring on the ferry!

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

let me bore you to sleep by telling you about the history of pavement on early Dallas roads!

Jim Turner, a steam boat, sunk at Albion on the Red River in 1854.