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6 unusual facts about Red River


Gwithian

The pub takes its name from the nearby Red River which, in turn, got its name from the discolouration caused by mining effluent.

KRDR

KCEI, a radio station (90.1 FM) licensed to serve Red River, New Mexico, United States, which held the call sign KRDR from 1997 to 2012

Red River cart

Often drawn by oxen, though also by horses or mules, these carts were used throughout most of the 19th century in the fur trade and in westward expansion in Canada and the United States, in the area of the Red River and on the plains west of the Red River Colony.

Red River of the South

Near Elmer, Oklahoma, the North Fork finally joins, and the river proceeds to follow a winding course east through one of the most arid parts of the Great Plains, receiving the Wichita River

Specialists debate whether the North Fork or the Prairie Dog Town Fork is the true stem.

Université de Saint-Boniface

It is also close to the St. Boniface Hospital, the St. Boniface Cathedral, and the meandering Red River.


1817 in archaeology

Major Stephen H. Long commands an expedition exploring the southern part of Arkansas, as well as the Louisiana border of the Red River; he also explores the Wisconsin River to its headwaters and the Mississippi River to the Falls of Saint Anthony.

Abilene Trail

Its exact route is disputed owing to its many offshoots, but it crossed the Red River just east of Henrietta, Texas, and continued north across the Indian Territory to Caldwell, Kansas and on past Wichita and Newton to Abilene.

Anarene, Texas

Director Peter Bogdanovich intended the film as an homage to Howard Hawks' Red River, set in Abilene, Kansas, and chose the name Anarene to evoke a correspondence.

Assiniboine River

The Assiniboine winds its way east eventually joining the Red River at "The Forks" in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Burton Allen Holder

During the Red River Campaign, Holder led the 22nd Texas Cavalry Regiment Dismounted, also known as the First Indian Texas Regiment which kept Union forces out of the Red River and new areas of Texas for the rest of the war.

Canadian River

A more recent explanation comes from William Bright, who wrote that the name is "probably derived from Río Canadiano", a Spanish spelling of the Caddo word káyántinu, which was the Caddos' name for the nearby Red River.

Charles Schnee

Charles Schnee (6 August 1916 Bridgeport, Connecticut - 29 November 1963 Beverly Hills, California) gave up law to become a screenwriter in the mid-1940s, crafting scripts for the classic Westerns Red River (1948) and The Furies (1950), the social melodrama They Live By Night (1949), and the cynical Hollywood saga The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), for which he won an Academy Award.

Charles Thurber

No monument exists at the site of the lynching, which took place on the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway (later becoming the Great Northern Railway) bridge over the Red River between Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota.

Garland, Arkansas

A. Lynn Lowe, former chairman of the Republican Party of Arkansas and the party's 1978 gubernatorial nominee against Bill Clinton, farms at Garland near the Red River.

Gejiu

Gejiu is located on top of a mountain to the north of the Red River (pinyin Hong He) valley, which flows from Tibet to Vietnam.

Irrigation in Vietnam

Nine rivers count as major ones accounting for ~93% of the total basin area; these are the Red River, Thái Bình River, Bằng Giang-Kỳ Cùng rivers, Ma River, Cả River, Vu Gia-Thu Bồn rivers, Đà Rằng River, Đồng Nai River and Cửu Long River.

La Salle River

The La Salle is a river in Manitoba, with its source near Portage La Prairie and terminating in the Red River in Saint Norbert (southern Winnipeg).

Lý Nam Đế

Upon resignation of his post he gathered the local nobility and tribes within the Red River Valley (North Vietnam) mobilized the imperial troops and naval fleet of Jiaozhou and successfully expelled the Liang administration and led the insurrection that ended in 543.

Manhao

Located on the Red River, Manhao was a transhipment point of some significance prior to construction of the Kunming–Hai Phong Railway in the early 20th century, as the shortest route between Kunming and French Indochina ran through it.

Minnesota State Highway 171

State Highway 171 serves as a short east–west route between U.S. 75, St. Vincent, the Red River, and Pembina, ND.

Minnesota State Highway 175

The Highway 175 / Highway 5 bridge crossing the Red River at the state line was not completed until the late 1960s.

Highway 175 serves as an east–west route between Lake Bronson, Hallock, the Red River, and Joliette, ND.

Minnesota State Highway 317

Minnesota State Highway 317 is a short highway in northwest Minnesota, which runs from North Dakota Highway 17 at the North Dakota state line, at the Red River, and continues east to its eastern terminus at its intersection with Minnesota State Highway 220 in Fork Township.

The short route of Highway 317 is located between the Red River and the Snake River.

Mississippian culture

Major sites such as Spiro and the Battle Mound Site are in the Arkansas River and Red River Valleys, the largest and most fertile of the waterways in the Caddoan region, where maize agriculture would have been the most productive.

Samuel D. Purviance

He was member of the State house of commons in 1798 and 1799; member of the State senate from Cumberland County in 1801; trustee of Fayetteville Academy in 1803; elected as a Federalist to the Eighth Congress (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1805); continued the practice of law in Fayetteville; died on the Red River in 1806, while on an exploring expedition into the West.

Winnipeg South Centre

It generally consisted of the part of the city west of the Red River and north of the Assiniboine River.

Xuân Thủy National Park

On 2 January 1989, the area of 12,000 hectare around the mouth of the Red River in Giao Thủy District located in north-east Vietnam were recognized as Southeast Asia's first Ramsar site, being the 50th site worldwide.


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16th Weapons Squadron

Attacked Japanese shipping in the Red River delta of Indochina and supported Chinese ground forces in their late 1944 drive along the Salween River.

26th Weapons Squadron

Attached Japanese shipping in the Red River delta of Indochina and supported Chinese ground forces in their late 1944 drive along the Salween River.

Battle of the North Fork of the Red River

The Battle of North Fork or the Battle of the North Fork of the Red River occurred on September 28, 1872, near McClellan Creek in Gray County, Texas, United States.

Campti, Louisiana

During the American Civil War, Union General A.J. Smith, with two brigades, reached Campti to assist Admiral David Dixon Porter's trapped gunboats on the Red River there.

Colfax massacre

Among his appointments, he installed William Ward, a black Union veteran, as commanding officer of Company A, 6th Infantry Regiment, Louisiana State Militia, a new unit to be based in Grant Parish to help control the violence there and in other Red River parishes.

Curtis James Bird

He was the youngest son of James Bird, a long time HBC employee who ended his career at the Red River Settlement.

Fernley and Lassen Railway

The railroad was constructed to connect the Red River Lumber Company's facilities in Westwood with the Southern Pacific's main line running through Fernley.

Fort La Reine

The elder Verendrye left Fort Maurepas at the mouth of the Red River in September 1738, ascended that river to the present site of Winnipeg, ascended the Assiniboine and on October 3 chose a site for Fort La Reine.

Geography of North Dakota

The valley contains the lowest point in North Dakota which is the Red River at Pembina, at 750 feet (230 m) above sea level.

Gregory Perino

His fascination with the past and his innate ability to locate and meticulously excavate prehistoric cemeteries and burial mounds soon led him into a career as a self-taught professional archaeologist, first with the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma; then with the Foundation for Illinois Archeology in Kampsville, Illinois; and finally with the Museum of the Red River in Idabel, Oklahoma.

History of Shreveport, Louisiana

Shreveport, Louisiana was founded in 1836 by the Shreve Town Company, a development corporation established to start a town at the meeting point of the Red River and the Texas Trail.

Indochina mangroves

Much larger areas of mangrove habitat on the coasts of southern Vietnam including the Mekong and Red River deltas were affected by the Vietnam War when areas of mangrove were cleared or destroyed by bombing and the defoliant Agent Orange, while mangroves around Pattaya and in the Chao Phraya delta in Thailand and the Bay of Kompong Som in Cambodia have been cleared for agricultural and coastal development.

James Bird

Bird's family at Red River included Curtis James Bird, his youngest brother, who became notable in the medical profession in Manitoba.

Jimmy G. Shoalmire

In 1969, he completed the dissertation entitled "Carpetbagger Extraordinary: Marshall Harvey Twitchell, 1840-1905", a study of Marshall H. Twitchell, the Louisiana Republican state senator from Bienville and Red River parishes.

Johnny and the Hurricanes

Johnny and the Hurricanes followed with "Red River Rock", an instrumental version of "Red River Valley", on Warwick Records, that became a Top Ten hit on both sides of the Atlantic (No. 5 in the U.S., No. 3 in the UK), and sold over a million copies.

Jonathan H. Carter

Low water levels in the Red River prevented the Missouri from participating in the defense of western Louisiana when the army of Union General Nathaniel P. Banks and the fleet of Admiral David Dixon Porter advanced on Shreveport in April 1864.

Lambeoceras

Lambeoceras is also found with Actinoceras in the Dog Head member of the Red River Series in Manitoba and with Actinoceras and Kochoceras in the Mt. Silliman beds on Baffin Island.

Manuel de Sandoval

In 1735, the French commander Louis Juchereau de St. Denis took the absence of Sandoval in Los Adaes to move the strong French Natchiloches to west of Red River,starting a French colonization in the region.

Marie-Anne Gaboury

On hearing that Lord Selkirk was establishing a permanent colony at the Red River, they returned to help establish the new Red River Colony in the spring of 1812.

Montagnais

#The French speaking missionaries to the North-West of the Red River Settlement referred to the Dene Chipewyan people as Montagnais in their documents written in French.

Nor-Alta Aviation

Frequent destinations for charter flights include the communities of the Little Red River Cree Nation, as well as Fort Chipewyan, Fort McMurray, Grande Prairie, Edmonton, and several fishing lodges and oil camps throughout northern Alberta.

Old River

Old River Control Structure, connecting the Red River to the Atchafalaya and Mississippi Rivers

Pembina, North Dakota

The city of St. Vincent, Minnesota lies adjacent to the east, across the Red River.

Quanah, Acme and Pacific Railway

Freight stops on the QA&P were in Red River, Carnes, Quanah, Acme, Lazare, Swearingen, Paducah, Narcisso, Summit (Motley County), Russellville, Roaring Springs, MacBain, Dougherty, Boothe Spur, and Floydada.

Red River Bridge

Cane Hill Road Bridge, near Prairie Grove, Arkansas, also known as Little Red River Bridge

Sorlie Memorial Bridge, Grand Forks, North Dakota, also known as Red River Bridge

Red River Gorge

The Red River Gorge's Sky Bridge appears in the 1955 film The Kentuckian, starring and directed by Burt Lancaster.

Red River Radio

Red River Radio (RRR) is affiliated with National Public Radio and broadcasts many popular NPR programs including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Fresh Air, World Cafe, Car Talk, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me and From the Top.

Red River Rebellion

In Ottawa, the Governor General Lord Lisgar had, at Macdonald's behest, proclaimed an amnesty on December 6 for all in Red River who would lay down their arms.

Rick Weiland

In 1997, as Weiland was being installed as regional director of FEMA, the Red River swamped its banks, causing unprecedented flooding to North Dakota and Minnesota, inundating all of downtown Fargo and causing the evacuation of Grand Forks, North Dakota in an event known as the Red River Flood.

Rosa Gumataotao Rios

While at Red River, she played an important role in luring the Montreal Expos to Washington, DC in 2005.

Stephen Harriman Long

Major Long's 1823 expedition up the Minnesota River (then known as St. Peter's River), to the headwaters of the Red River of the North, down that river to Pembina and Fort Garry, and thence by canoe across British Canada to Lake Huron is sometimes confused with his initial expedition to the Red River in modern-day Texas and Oklahoma.

Sunbutter

Beginning in 2000, in cooperation with the Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, SunGold Foods’ parent company, Red River Commodities, began a two-year project to develop a substitute for peanut butter that would be made from sunflower seeds.

Timeline of Winnipeg history

The Red River Floodway Expansion is set to be completed in late 2010 at a final cost of more than $665,000,000 CAD.

Treaty of Old Crossing

Most of the indemnity fund wound up in the hands of Norman Kittson, who had pioneered steamship operations on the Red River as a means of handling a burgeoning trade with the Hudson's Bay Company.

US 83 Bridge at the Salt Fork of the Red River

The US 83 Bridge at the Salt Fork of the Red River, bringing US 83 across the Salt Fork Red River near Wellington, Texas, was a truss bridge built in 1939.