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Shreve's Cut: The Mississippi, Red, and Atchafalaya Rivers at Red River Landing, Louisiana
Shreve's Cut of the Mississippi River led to engineering the Red and Atchafalaya Rivers, and the victim was Red River Landing.
Robin Cole-Jett
Apr 29, 2023
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Promiscuous Peddling: Shreveport's Farmers Market
To prevent shifty salesmen, the city of Shreveport erected an orderly Farmers Market.
Robin Cole-Jett
Jan 31, 2023
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Old Shed Road in Bossier City
The purpose of "Shed Road" in Bossier City was to prevent rain from soaking the dirt trail below.
Robin Cole-Jett
Jan 31, 2023
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De Mézières writing Smack about Natchitoches after Taovaya
After his 1772 visit to Taovaya at the Red River, Athanase De Mézières preferred the villages over Natchitoches.
Robin Cole-Jett
Jan 31, 2023
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The Chicken War
In 1936, the Chicken War of 1719 was inadvertently commemorated.
Robin Cole-Jett
Dec 1, 2022
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Fur Trade in the Red River Valley
A description of the fur trade in Louisiana during the French colonial era.
Wilhelmina Heloise
Aug 1, 2022
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Going the distance
The published account of the 28th Congressional Session in 1843 included a number of maps and drawings. These visuals helped to...
Robin Cole-Jett
May 15, 2022
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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...
Robin Cole-Jett
Jul 26, 2021
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Pedro Vial's map of his Great Spanish Road, Part II
Pedro Vial's map of the "Great Spanish Road" began in Natchitoches and passed by homes and ranches of traders/planters
Robin Cole-Jett
Jul 6, 2021
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Humble historic home
Sometime in the 1990s, the federal program called Historic Buildings Survey (HABS) documented the Coincoin- Prudhomme home along the Cane...
Robin Cole-Jett
Jun 29, 2021
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A nice long stroll through Chichi
One settlement along this path that interests me is at the western end of the road on this map - Chichi.
Robin Cole-Jett
Jun 29, 2021
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Dr. King's Visit to Shreveport
An oral history about Dr. Martin Luther King's visit to Shreveport in the 1950s.
Robin Cole-Jett
Jun 28, 2021
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Mexican Texas or Texan Mexico
Around 1821, Spanish Texas became Mexican Texas.
Robin Cole-Jett
Jul 21, 2020
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Red River expedition: The Parker Map
I was nosing around the digital collections listed at by the Louisiana State University (Shreveport) libraries and found the Parker map.
Robin Cole-Jett
Jun 22, 2019
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Union Relics from the Red River Campaign at Bailey's Dam, Alexandria, Louisiana
Nathan Banks, Union general, left a relic of the Red River Campaign at Bailey's Dam in Alexandria, Louisiana.
Robin Cole-Jett
Mar 25, 2018
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Death Divided: Segregation Cemeteries in the Red River Valley
The Red River Valley of the South still contains the remnants of segregation inside many of its cemeteries.
Robin Cole-Jett
Jan 3, 2016
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