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The raft blocked the mouth of Twelve Mile Bayou, impeding settlement in the area west of Shreveport. There were many smaller logjams on the Red River. [2] The raft raised the banks of the river, creating bayous and several lakes. Called the Great Raft Lakes, these included Caddo and Cross Lakes, along the lower reaches of the Red River's ...
As a result of the success of his design, Shreve was ordered in 1832 by Secretary of War Lewis Cass to clear the Great Raft, 150 miles (240 km) of dead wood on the Red River. [2] Shreve successfully removed the Raft by 1839. [1] [2] [26] The area of the Red River where the Raft was most concentrated is today his namesake city of Shreveport. [1] [6]
The most famous natural wood raft is the Great Raft on the Red River in Louisiana, which prior to its removal in the 1830s affected between 390 and 480 km (240–300 mi) of the main channel. [3] It has been suggested that such extensive log rafts may have been common in Europe in prehistory. [4]
Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Jagex.The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly popular prior to the launch of RuneScape 3.
Canadian band Great Big Sea included the song "River Driver" on their album The Hard and the Easy, about a log driver from Newfoundland. In the 2019 film The Lighthouse , one of the main characters, a former timberman , is driven mad by the guilt of allowing his foreman to drown during a log drive in Canada.
A drawing of a raft (balsa) near Guayaquil, Ecuador in 1748. The drawing resembles the description given by 16th-century Spanish explorers of the rafts used by Indians. In 1526, a Spanish ship captained by Bartolomé Ruiz , Francisco Pizarro's chief navigator, [ 1 ] ventured southward down the west coast of South America, the first Old World ...
Other dams were opened, heavy rain storms flooded the upper country, and there was immediately a boom in the water of the Saint Croix, and logs went booming along toward the great Stillwater boom. Logs from the "low-water" drives were easily floated off, and came down stream in immense rafts, almost blockading the river as they moved along.
Hsu Fu completed the voyage on a bamboo raft, which some believe took him to America and back. Severin set out to prove that such a voyage could have been made. On the beach at Sam Son , Vietnam , he oversaw the construction of a 60-foot (18.3 m) long, 15-foot (4.6 m) wide raft built of 220 bamboos and rattan cording, and driven by an 800 ...