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References

Steamboats

 

1  Thompson, Alan S. “Transportation: Riverboats and railroads of Shreveport.” Ann McLaurin, ed. Glimpses of
    Shreveport
. 54.

2  Commercial National Bank of Shreveport, Louisiana. A Historical Perspective: The Red River. Baton Rouge: Moran
    Publishing Corporation, 1979. 36.

3  Commercial National Bank, 37.

4  McLure, Lilla and J. Ed Howe.  History of Shreveport and Shreveport Builders. Shreveport: J. Ed Howe, Publisher,
    1937. 87; Tyson, Carl Newton. The
Red River in Southwestern History.
University of Oklahoma Press, 1981.  
    154-156.

5  Thomson, Bailey and Patricia L. Meador. Shreveport: A Photographic Remembrance, 1873-1949. Baton Rouge:
    Louisiana State University Press, 1987. 30

6  Plummer, Marguerite R. and Gary D. Joiner. Historic Shreveport-Bossier. San Antonio: Historical Publishing
    Network, 2000.

7  Tyson, 154-156.

Commercial National Bank, 40.

9  DeLuca, Karla. “Caddo’s lost steamboat.” Shreveport Journal. 17 Mar. 1983. 1. Louisiana State University in
    Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections. VF: Steamboats – Mittie B. Stephens;
    Waddle, Ray. “Archeologists seek to exhume legendary lady.”
Shreveport Times. 10 July 1983. Louisiana State
    University in Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections. VF: Steamboats – Mittie B.
    Stephens; Gordon, John. “Mittie Stephens location still eludes searchers.”
Shreveport Times
. 1 Oct. 1983.
    Louisiana State University in Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections. VF:
    Steamboats – Mittie B. Stephens.

10 Boggs, Johnny D. “Disaster on Caddo Lake: The burning of the Mittie B. Stephens.” True West. Aug. 1999. 42.
    Louisiana State University in Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections. VF:
    Steamboats – Mittie B. Stephens.

11 Waddle.

12 Watkins, Mildred S. “59 perished in tragic steamboat fire on Caddo Lake.” Shreveport Journal. 25 July 1964. 2-
     B. Louisiana State University in Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections. VF:
     Steamboats – Mittie B. Stephens.

13  Boggs.

14  Waddle; Watkins.

15  “Mittie Stephens burned.” Daily Southwestern. 16 Feb. 1869. Louisiana State University in Shreveport Noel
      Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections. VF: Steamboats – Mittie B. Stephens; Watkins; Beil, Gail K.
     “Ghost ship.” Marshall News Messenger. 22 Feb. 1993. VF: Steamboats – Mittie B. Stephens;

16  Boggs, 44.

17  Boggs, 43.

18  Waddle; Boggs, 45.

 

 



                                                                                                                                        

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