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The Red River is a major river in the Southern United States. [3] It was named for its reddish water color from passing through red-bed country in its watershed. [4] It also is known as the Red River of the South to distinguish it from the Red River of the North, which flows between Minnesota and North Dakota into the Canadian province of Manitoba.
The paths between these posts became parts of the first of the Red River Trails. [16] In 1815, 1822, and 1823, cattle were herded to the Red River Colony from Missouri by a route up the Des Moines River Valley to the Minnesota River, across the divide, then down the Red River to the Selkirk settlement. [17]
"Harbinger of Revolution", in Full steam ahead: reflections on the impact of the first steamboat on the Ohio River, 1811-2011. Rita Kohn, editor. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press, pp. 1–16. ISBN 978-0-87195-293-6; Maass, Alfred R. (1994). "Brownsville's Steamboat Enterprize and Pittsburgh's Supply of General Jackson's Army".
Plate XV of the photographic album Photographic Views of Red River Raft, 1873 Plate CVII: Steamer Bryerly entering Red River through Sale & Murphy's Canal, 1873 Plate VII, 1873 In 1829, the US Army Corps of Engineers hired steamboat builder and river captain Henry Miller Shreve (1785–1851), Superintendent of Western River Improvement, to ...
The steamboat was the first commercial passenger service in Europe and sailed along the River Clyde in Scotland. [17] The Margery, launched in Dumbarton in 1814, in January 1815 became the first steamboat on the River Thames, much to the amazement of Londoners. She operated a London-to-Gravesend river service until 1816, when she was sold to ...
Bayou Pierre is a partially man-made bayou and ancient course of the Red River [1] in Louisiana, United States.It is a tributary of the Red River originating from an ancient bend of the Red River at Coate's Bluff (Wright Island) in Shreveport, LA [2] (now blocked off by a levee to prevent the Red River from flooding into Bayou Pierre) and merging west from the town of Clarence, Louisiana. [3]
Sir George Simpson, the governor of Kittson's old rival, the Hudson's Bay Company, described him in the 1850s as "the most extensive and respectable of the American traders doing business at Red River". [15] In 1858 Kittson was instrumental in establishing a steamboat service on the Red River of the North, a route which was also used by the HBC.
Map of the 1806 Red River Expedition's route. Published by Nich. King, 1806. On April 19, 1806, the now-24-member party (Freeman and his two assistants; Sparks, who commanded the military party, with two officers, seventeen privates, and a servant) pushed off in two flat-bottomed barges and a pirogue from Fort Adams, near Natchez, Mississippi, and turned into the Red River to go upstream to ...