The Other Lewis & Clark: The Red River GREAT RAFT
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- When a fledgling country, the United States, doubled its territory by purchasing most of France’s New World possessions, the race was on to explore the new land. While Lewis and Clark famously made it to the Pacific, another expedition led by Thomas Freeman and Peter Custis.
The latter were less successful because they hit a literal snag, a 100+ mile long blockage of trees which had piled up in the Red River over centuries.
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Sources
Cox, Isaac Joslin. “The Freeman Red River Expedition.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 92, no. 2 (1948): 115-19. www.jstor.org/stable/3143410.
Custis, Peter., Freeman, Thomas. Southern Counterpart to Lewis & Clark: The Freeman & Custis Expedition of 1806. United States: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.
Flores, Dan L. “The Ecology of the Red River in 1806: Peter Custis and Early Southwestern Natural History.” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 88, no. 1 (1984): 1-42. www.jstor.org/stable/30239838.
Foreman, Grant. “River Navigation in the Early Southwest.” The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 15, no. 1 (1928): 34-55. doi.org/10.2307/1891666.
GUDMESTAD, ROBERT. “Steamboats and the Removal of the Red River Raft.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 52, no. 4 (2011): 389-416. www.jstor.org/stable/23074722.
Guthrie, Blaine A., and Mitchell R. Guthrie. “CATFISH, CORNMEAL AND THE BROAD CANOPY OF HEAVEN: The Journal of the Reverend Guerdon Gates Describing His Trip on the Red River of Louisiana and Texas, 1841-1842.” The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 66, no. 1 (1968): 3-34. www.jstor.org/stable/23376785.
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Parsons, Mark L., Jim Bruseth, Jacques Bagur, and Claude McCrocklin. “Finding Sha’chahdínnih (Timber Hill): The Last Village of the Kadohadacho in the Caddo Homeland.” Plains Anthropologist 47, no. 182 (2002): 231-49. www.jstor.org/stable/25669780.
Wise, Michael D. “Seeing Like a Stomach: Food, the Body, and Jeffersonian Exploration in the Near Southwest, 1804-1808.” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 120, no. 4 (2017): 462-91. www.jstor.org/stable/44647155.
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this was great. thanks!
Thanks so much for watching!
This was a super well made video, im sorry you havent hit your sub goal yet you should definitely have more than 1k
Thanks so much for the view! It is hard to stay motivated sometimes, but comments like yours give me life. I just have to keep trying 😁
great video thanks for sharing and have a great day
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My Uncle Genghis would have blasted through the Great Raft if he knew about the jimsonweed. Excellent video. I never heard of Custis/Freeman.
Wilkinson was a tool too
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Much appreciated! Thanks for the view!
You left out the hunter Dunbar Expedition
The "other L & C" is definitely an oversimplification. Hunter and Dunbar apparently failed because one of them wasnt cut out to rough it haha.
But there were actually 4: Zebulon Pike heading out towards the Rockies too!
What did they do with all those dead trees?
Thanks for the question! I did some extra research and found this article by a local Lousiana historian:
countryroadsmagazine.com/outdoors/knowing-nature/the-great-river-raft/
Shreve seems to have been quite inventive, registering quite a few patents. Beyond the ships with the big pulling mechanism to get the trees out, Shreve's ships had saw mills on board to transform the trees into usable lumber.
Later in the era where they were using TNT to blow up the trees, presumably the explosions were strong enough to break up the trees into little pieces!
@@FunSizeHistory Pity he didn't think of using some to fill up Turnbull's Bend after digging his eponymous Cut, considering the stellar job those logs made of jamming the Red River, it would've likely spared the Army Corps of Engineers a lot of trouble down the line.
@@fabiomorandi3585 I agree! Seems that you're something of an expert on American geography and history
@@FunSizeHistory Not really, I was doing research for an alternate history map I'm making, stumbled upon this topic, and started to wonder if I could make a point of divergence out of it.
@@fabiomorandi3585 Love it!
And this folks is why shreveport isn’t French like the rest of Louisiana.
One of my favorite things about history is explaining what we experience today. Thanks for dropping the comment and the view!
Sorry to be critical but this sounds like a sensationalized story. The way you tell it makes it sound way to factual, like you where there. The fish is always bigger when the story is told but that’s not history. It’s story telling.
Heya, thanks for the feedback here!
My goal with my channel is to present history the way that I believe it should be told: quite literally a story which is relatable. Hopefully my viewers can envision themselves participating in the Freeman-Custis expedition or being one of the settlers watching the Great Raft being broken up by Shreve's boats.
If viewers find the story interesting, they can also be assured that I reinforce everything I say with academic sources which you can find in the description of the video.
I really appreciate the view and please keep the feedback coming :)
@@FunSizeHistory na you did fine for such a tiny video, I don’t know what this guy is talking about.
@@swayback7375 Thanks for the view!