Messing with a River
Red River Landing, Point Coupee Parish, Louisiana today. The Red River once entered the Mississippi River at the place where southern...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Mar 29
Steamboat on a Gamble
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...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Mar 21
Jim Turner lost its steam
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...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Feb 19
Long Lost Lafayette
This 1839 postal road map shows Lost Prairie, Lafayette Courthouse, and Conway connected via the Red River in Lafayette County (Miller...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Trail station
A cowboy from England has his photograph taken at Red River Station in the 1880s (University of Texas, Arlington). Red River Station in...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Camp Howze
Opened in 1942 just northwest of Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas, Camp Howze's purpose was to train infantry for activation during World...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
An early Bridge
A different view of Colbert's Hotel and Stage stand, as seen by a sketch artist for the Handbook of North Texas, published in 1886....
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Rare southwestern Arkansas
This hand-drawn map from 1864 appears to have come from the hand of a man named S.T. Risler, who served in Walker's Texas Division during...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Old Shed Road
The only extant depiction of Shed Road I've found, so far, comes from a 1926 article in the Bossier Banner Progress. Bossier City didn't...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Rich Place
Bradley's Corner north of Burkburnett, Wichita County, Texas (DeGoyler Library, SMU) The "skyscrapers" on this photograph climbed into...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- May 15, 2022
Just floating an idea... literally
An aero-trolley at Turner Falls, Oklahoma. This may have been the general idea of the proposed ferry over the Red River. Oklahoma.net In...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jul 26, 2021
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...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 28, 2021
100th Meridian
In August of 1859, surveyors marked the 100th Meridian at the Red River - the line that marks the eastern boundary of the Texas panhandle...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 28, 2021
Red River City
According to this map filed by the Houston & Texas Railroad with the Texas General Land Office, their rail line was proposed to extend to...
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