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References

Henry Miller Shreve


1.  Sarrazin, Jean Fairly. “Story of Shreve family reveals character of Shreveport’s founder.” Shreveport Times. p.
     13. 24 Aug. 1941. Louisiana State University in Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special
     Collections. VF: Henry Miller Shreve.

2.  Somdal, Dewey A. “Henry Miller Shreve.” Speech from the unveiling of the statue in front of the Civic Theater
     on River Parkway, June 10, 1967. Louisiana State University in Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and
     Special Collections. VF: Henry Miller Shreve.

3.  Sarrazin.

4.  Brock, Eric. “Henry Miller Shreve ranks among most important American inventors.” Forum News. 28 Nov. 2001.
     p. 21 Louisiana State University in Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections. VF:
     Henry Miller Shreve.

5.  Baughman, Mrs. J. Harris. “Historical Records from the life of Captain Henry Miller Shreve, who was one of the
     founders of Shreveport, Louisiana, and whose work in clearing the channel of the Red River made possible the
     growth of Shreveport.” Louisiana Genealogical Records Commission. Vol. 6. 1931-1932, 1932-1933. Louisiana
     State University in Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections. VF: Red River Raft.

6.  Somdal.

7.  Henrici, Holice H. Shreveport: The Beginnings. Lafayette: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1985. 4.

8.  Baughman.

9.  Somdal.

10. Baughman.

11. Henrici.

12. Malone, Dumas, ed. Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. IX. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935;
     reprint, 1964. 133.

13. Hardin, J. Fair. Louisiana Historical Quarterly. Vol. 10, No. 1. January 1927. Louisiana State University in
     Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections. VF: Henry Miller Shreve. 66.

14. Masters, R. E. L. “A sketch of Henry Miller Shreve.” Shreveport Times, 1-F. 25 Aug. 1957. Louisiana State
     University in Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections. VF: Henry Miller Shreve.

15. Humphrey, Hubert Davis. “The ‘Great Raft’ of the Red River.” B. H. Gilley, ed. North Louisiana, Volume One: To
     1865, Essays on the Region and Its History. Ruston: McGinty Trust Fund Publications, 1984. 84.

16. Henrici, 6.

17. Humphreys, 83.

18. Humphreys, 82.

19. Henrici, 6-7.

20. Humphreys 85.

21. Malone, 134.

22. Hearn-O’Pry, Maude. Chronicles of Shreveport and Caddo Parish. Shreveport: Journal Printing Co.,
     1928. Rpt. 1978. 2.

23. Masters.

24. Malone.

25. Humphreys, 82.

26. Malone.

27. Humphreys, 83-84.

28. Henrici.

29. Henrici, 5.

30. McLaurin, Ann M., ed. Glimpses of Shreveport. Natchitoches: Northwestern State University Press, 1985. 12.

31. Henrici, 7.

32. Malone.

33. Henrici.

34. Henrici, 8.

35. Humphreys, 84.

36. Humprheys, 87.

37. Hardin, 65.

38. Brock, “Mr. Shreve, as in Shreveport, was both innovative and inventive.” Shreveport Times. 2 Feb. 1993.
     Louisiana State University in Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections. VF:
     Red River Raft.

39. Baughman.

40. Somdal.

41. Brock, “Henry Miller Shreve…”

 

 



                                                                                                                                        

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