Red River, Shifty River
The Red River is a shifty river, but that's not meant as an insult.
top of page
Search
Robin Cole-Jett
- Oct 28
Cash Point in Louisiana
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.
41 views0 comments
Robin Cole-Jett
- Oct 24
The Cossatot River
The Cossatot River derives from a French word meaning"crushed head," and in 1833, it was to be spanned by a toll bridge.
45 views0 comments
Robin Cole-Jett
- Oct 24
Cross Timbers Map from 1844 by Josiah Gregg
The Cross Timbers is well defined on this 1844 map by Josiah Gregg.
23 views0 comments
Robin Cole-Jett
- Oct 17
The Fulton Ferry
What may be the final photo of the ferry at Fulton, Hempstead County, Arkansas which crossed the Red River just below the Great Bend.
34 views0 comments
Robin Cole-Jett
- Oct 17
Henry Ker on the Red River: Adventurer or Liar?
Between 1809 and 1819, a young American named Henry Ker traveled up the Red River from its mouth to its far western reaches search of gold.
13 views0 comments
Robin Cole-Jett
- Oct 15
Red River Map from France
One of my favorite maps of the Red River is Nicolas de Fer's illustrated map published in France in 1718.
26 views0 comments
Robin Cole-Jett
- Oct 14
The Gardie Eastman, the last Steamboat on the Red River?
Decommissioned in 1926, the Gardie Eastman may well have been the last steamboat to traverse the entirety of the Red River.
126 views0 comments
Robin Cole-Jett
- Oct 14
Twelve Mile Bayou, aka the Jefferson to Shreveport Waterway
I was pleasantly surprised to recognize that the Jefferson to Shreveport Waterway still exists as Twelve Mile Bayou.
318 views0 comments
Robin Cole-Jett
- Oct 9
Sketch of the Pawnee (Wichita) Village by George Catlin
The Pawnee/ Wichita village that George Catlin sketched was abandoned by the 1860s.
14 views0 comments
Robin Cole-Jett
- Oct 6
Ancient Pyramid Mounds at Marksville, Louisiana
Near Marksville, Louisiana sit 2,500 year old, human constructed mounds... ancient, earthen pyramids. They've been abandoned once again.
553 views0 comments
Robin Cole-Jett
- Oct 4
The Willis Bridge over Lake Texoma
The "Willis Bridge" now connects Oklahoma to Texas over Lake Texoma along US 377.
41 views0 comments
Robin Cole-Jett
- Oct 2
Maps of the Rapids at Alexandria in the Civil War
Two maps of the rapids at Alexandria during the Civil War reside in the Library of Congress.
19 views0 comments
Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 28
Marion Post, Photographer of Cane River Creoles
Marion Post (later, Marion Post Wolcott) was the first photographer to document the Cane River Creole culture of Louisiana.
18 views0 comments
Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 26
Salt Nation: Caddo Industry in Southwestern Arkansas
The Caddo Nation mined salt for over eight hundred years, and this activity remained an Arkansas industry into the 19th century.
10 views0 comments
Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 23
Sophia Suttenfield Aughinbaugh Coffee Butt Porter
Sophia Suttenfield Aughinbaugh Coffee Butt Porter was one of the more colorful characters to inhabit the Red River Valley.
16 views0 comments
Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 23
Grand Ecore Fight
Today, Grand Ecore is referred to mainly as a geological feature, but there is a TON of human history on this bluff.
34 views0 comments
Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 23
The Red River Toll Bridge at Sacra's Ferry at Brown Springs
In 1931, the toll bridge at the former Sacra's Ferry site across from Brown Springs closed for good in favor of a free bridge a upstream.
17 views0 comments
Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 22
Sykes Ferry at Dorcheat Bayou, Louisiana
Sykes (Sikes) Ferry Road passing over Dorcheat Bayou north of Minden in central Webster Parish, Louisiana.
7 views0 comments
Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 22
Western Louisiana in the Civil War
When the capitol of Louisiana faced Union Control and Reconstruction during the Civil War, western Louisiana descended into lawlessness.
24 views0 comments
bottom of page