How the Interstate obliterated a vintage Shreveport scene of the De Fatta grocery store, shot gun shacks, and hot tamale vendors.

I'm here to rant that loop highways and bypasses are stupid ideas.

The Louisiana Purchase gave way to five territories along the Red River. Here are links to some of the congressional papers.

Until the 1830s, the Disputed Territory along the Red River, where Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana meet, was a "no man's land."

From 1817 to 1822, the "Sulphur Fork Factory" stood at the confluence of the Sulphur into the Red River in today's Miller County, Arkansas.

St. Anne's Church in Natchitoches Parish may be the church with the oldest congregation in the state of Louisiana.

A lot of shenanigans and the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819 established the Red River as the southern boundary of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.

For Thomas Jefferson, the most important Corps of Discovery in the Louisiana Purchase was the expedition up the Red River of 1806.

In 1805, Dr. Sibley took the testimony of Francis Grappe about French settlements along the Red River in New Orleans Territory.

The census of Native People of New Orleans Territory included descriptions of tribal languages, places, and affiliations.

The Arlington Hotel in downtown Shreveport opened in 1914.

Campti lies in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, just up the road from the Grand Ecore.

Today, the Louisiana Tower stands in the Tilly aka Phoenix aka Youree aka Washington-Youree aka Captain Shreve Hotel's Shreveport site.

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

According to Jacques Marquette in 1673, this is the "First Map of the Mississippi River."

The Index Line stretched all the way from Logansport north to the Red River.

Southern Maid Donuts, particularly the ones made in Shreveport, Louisiana, are served fresh and hot in the afternoon.

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

Between 1810 and 1813, John Maley journeyed up the Red River and visited Natchitoches twice, but didn't enjoy either visit.

The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1873 claimed several victims in Shreveport, including Eugene Woodruff, who removed the Raft of the Red River.