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| Description | Named for the red soil across which it flows; the main stream is 1,360 miles long, and for 440 miles the river forms the Texas-Oklahoma boundary. For years this was an international boundary. The 1819 treaty with Spain established the course of the Red River to the 100th meridian as part of the boundary between the United States and New Spain. Until after the 1845 annexation of Texas, this river did not lie entirely within the United States. During the colonial period, the waterway and the crossing here became a main gateway into Texas. In the mid-19th century, brisk steamer traffic went on at eastern end of the river. A military expedition under Captain Randolph B. Marcy in 1852 explored the Red to its upper reaches in land held by wild Indians. In 1921, the Burkburnett oil boom here led to a dispute between Texas and Oklahoma over ownership of the valuable riverbed. The Supreme Court in 1921 and 1923 upheld the south bank as the Texas border. This site is 25 miles west of important old Fort Sill crossing on the major military road that once linked the Oklahoma Fort to outposts on the Texas frontier. The bridge here, opened to traffic in 1927, is the second free bridge to span the Red River. (1968) |
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| Author | Nicolas Henderson from Coppell, Texas |
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