Date of Award
8-1948
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
History
First Advisor
Walter Prichard
Abstract
To early residents of the Red River country, the term "raft" meant neither a number of logs lashed together to be floated to a lumber mill, nor a rude craft propelled by sail, oar, or pole. It meant, rather, a very extensive log jam in a stream: a tangled, twisted mass of driftwood that had accumulated in the bed of a river. Such was the Great Raft of Red River.
In Red River there are evident causes for the formation of rafts. The upper river has a steep gradient and crosses a region in which the rainfall is light but shows more than a tendency to the cloudburst type. The river is, therefore, subject to sudden freshets. The rainfall for a normal month in the spring is three to five inches in the upper part, and four to six inches in the lower, but the amount has, on occasions, been twice that in one month.
Recommended Citation
(Farmer) Dyer, Grace Elizabeth, "The Removal of the Great Raft in Red River" (1948). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. 8433.
https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses/8433