[PDF] The Red River Country eBook

Author : T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,65 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780890968031

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In 1985 T. Lindsay Baker edited the diary and the manuscript of the official report from the National Archives and published them for a limited readership as a special issue of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Review. Not included in the 1985 publication was the survey party's ornithological report, written by Charles A. H. McCauley, which Baker subsequently found and published in 1988 as an article in the Panhandle-Plains Historical Review, including ornithological annotation by Kenneth D.

Author : Rev. Alfred Campbell Garrioch
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 33,24 MB
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : History
ISBN :

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "First Furrows" (A History of the Early Settlement of the Red River Country; including that of Portage la Prairie) by Rev. Alfred Campbell Garrioch. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : E E Halleran
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 2014-09-14
Category :
ISBN : 9781628993141

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Captain Tom Hale of the Texas Rangers, with Bill Tolliver, his elderly scout, had been sent alone into the dangerous Red River area - their mission, to locate and destroy a wagonload of stolen guns destined to be sold to the Indians.

Author : Ludwell H. Johnson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1421434458

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Originally published in 1958. Johnson tells the story of the Red River Campaign, which took place in Louisiana and Arkansas in the spring of 1864. In response to the demands of Union Free-Soil interests in Texas, and the need of New England textile manufacturers for cotton, an expedition was undertaken to open the way to Texas. General Nathaniel Banks conducted a combined military and naval expedition up the Red River in a campaign that lasted only from March 23 to May 20, 1864, but was one of the most destructive of the Civil War. The campaign ended in Banks's defeat at the Battle of Sabine Crossroads. This book illustrates how military operations during the Civil War were often intimately interwoven with political, economic, and ideological factors, which frequently determined the time and place of a Union offensive. The author describes the desires and opinions of the public, the press, and Lincoln's administration regarding an invasion of Texas, as well as the motivation of the officers themselves, such as Banks's aspiration for the 1864 presidential nomination. Johnson relates vividly the various battles of the expedition and the problems posed by mustering undisciplined troops, by having to procure supplies in poor country with insufficient supply lines, and by contending with bad weather and rough terrain.

Author : Alexander White Neville
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 20,26 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Red River Valley (Tex.-La.)
ISBN :

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Based on the author's daily feature, Backward glances, published in the Paris morning news, also referred to as the Paris news, published in Paris, Texas.

Author : Marcie R. Rendon
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,43 MB
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1641293764

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One Book, One Minnesota Selection for Summer 2021 Introducing Cash Blackbear, a young Ojibwe woman whose visions and grit help solve a brutal murder in this award-winning debut. 1970s, Red River Valley between North Dakota and Minnesota: Renee “Cash” Blackbear is 19 years old and tough as nails. She lives in Fargo, North Dakota, where she drives truck for local farmers, drinks beer, plays pool, and helps solve criminal investigations through the power of her visions. She has one friend, Sheriff Wheaton, her guardian, who helped her out of the broken foster care system. One Saturday morning, Sheriff Wheaton is called to investigate a pile of rags in a field and finds the body of an Indian man. When Cash dreams about the dead man’s weathered house on the Red Lake Reservation, she knows that’s the place to start looking for answers. Together, Cash and Wheaton work to solve a murder that stretches across cultures in a rural community traumatized by racism, genocide, and oppression.

Author : Carl Newton Tyson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 30,48 MB
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0806153822

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In The Red River in Southwestern History, Carl Newton Tyson traces the river’s history from the time of early Spanish and French explorers to the present day, leading his readers to a new appreciation of the river and the region. From the Staked Plains of the Texas Panhandle the river flows down to buffalo and prairie dog country and through the Cross Timbers. It continues eastward to the Great Bend and through the cypresses of Louisiana’s bayou country, joining the Mississippi River south of Natchez. Whereas the Red River was a source of water to the Spaniards as they searched for gold, at Natchitoches, French trader Louis Juchereau de St. Denis traded with the Caddo Indians. Conflicts soon developed between French traders and Spaniards in Texas as they competed for land along the Red. Years later, the Red River featured again as part of the settlement in the 1819 Adams-Onís Treaty, negotiated by Spanish minister Luis de Onís y Gonzales and U.S. secretary of state John Quincy Adams, which finally brought to an end the western boundary disputes between Spain and the United States lingering since the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. In 1852 Randolph Marcy discovered the source of the Red River—a mountain rivulet cutting a deep canyon through the Staked Plains. Marcy’s testimony in the Greer County border dispute between Oklahoma and Texas was key to the U.S. Supreme Court decision favoring Oklahoma. In the decades between 1930 and 1970, dams were built along the Red by the U.S. Corps of Engineers to control floods, generate electricity, and create lakes for recreation along the Oklahoma-Texas border.