Edith McCall is the author of Conquering the Rivers: Henry Mill Shreve and the Navigation of America’s Inland Waterways (Louisiana State University, 1984).
A two-hundred-mile tangle of wood, silt, live trees, and vines made the Red River virtually unnavigable—and north Texas unreachable—until Henry Shreve’s steam-powered snag boat blasted and ripped it away Read >>
