Endangered Fish in the Yampa and Green Rivers

Fish populations in the Green and Yampa rivers have undergone significant changes in the last century. Today, more than 50 fish species can be found in these rivers, but fewer than a third of those are native to the Green ...

Red River Bakery

1917

Built in 1917 by the Red River Lumber Co. as a bakery, it supplied 3 stores and the company cookhouse. It was famed for its biscuits (as in biscuits & gravy) that gave the loggers the fuel needed to build ...

Indian River Hundred

So named in 1706.

This hundred together with Lewes and Rehoboth,

Broadkill, and Cedar Creek Hundreds,

formed what the early settlers called “Old Sussex.”

Marker is on John J. Williams Highway (Delaware Route 24) near Jersey Road, on the right when ...

The Red River Campaign

March 1864

"I trust some future historian will treat this matter as it deserves to be treated, because it is a subject in which the whole country should feel an interest..."Rear Admiral David D. Porter May 16, 1864

Assembling the Troops

In March ...

Red River

Side A

Twenty-seven miles southeast of Tucumcari, New Mexico, Red River originates in the watershed of the Frio Draw on the Llano Estacado at an elevation of about 5000 feet. Flowing eastward through Palo Duro Canyon, it subsequently forms the border ...

Red River Campaign

Battle of Jenkins' Ferry

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Jenkins' Ferry State Park

Act 10 of 1961 authorized this 37-acre state park as a commemorative site and recreation area. The park includes the ferry site where you are standing. The ferry was operated by the Jenkins' ...

The Red River Plunge of Bonnie and Clyde

On June 10, 1933, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Pritchard and family saw from their home on the bluff (west) the plunge of an auto into Red River. Rescuing the victims, unrecognized as Bonnie Parker and Clyde and Buck Barrow, they ...

The Treasured American River

The river before you is not the same river that flowed through here 200 years ago when the Nisenan Indians caught salmon and collected acorns along its bank. The river has been mined, dammed and surrounded by our cities, yet ...

Red River Transportation / A Busy Port

Red River Transportation

The Red River Trails were a set of overland routes linking the cities of Winnipeg and St. Paul and the small forts and settlements between them.From 1820 to the 1870s, the trails were used by Metis freight drivers ...

The Red River Trail

The establishment of trade between the Red River settlements in Canada and the emerging City of Saint Paul led to the development of three Red River Trails on the 1840's. The "woods" trail passed over this point enroute from Crow ...