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A visitor center in the refuge displays many of these items. The Bertrand site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge is located five miles (eight kilometres) east of Blair, Nebraska. Access to the refuge is on U.S. Route 30 between Blair and Interstate 29.
DeSoto Lake is a lake within DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge, Harrison and Pottawattamie counties, Iowa and Washington County, Nebraska. The 811 acres (328 ha) lake has a maximum depth of 26 feet (7.9 m). [1] Though it has the appearance of a natural lake it is man-made, created from a channel leading from the Missouri River in 1958.
Museum at the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge. River routes were also integral to the fur trade between St. Louis and the Indian country that provided the furs, which had been going on since the early 19th century. J.J. Roe & Co. consistently took goods upriver and brought furs and other extractive materials back down the river.
Horace Bixby was one of the pilots of the steamboat Bertrand, which sank on April 1, 1865, after hitting a snag in the Missouri River, north of Omaha, Nebraska, in what was to become the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge. [19] The wreck of the Bertrand was excavated in 1968, and much of its cargo as survived—over 500,000 artifacts—are on ...
Pages in category "Protected areas of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. ... Red River National Wildlife Refuge
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State of Louisiana [24] Marsh Island Wildlife Refuge: Iberia Parish: 76,664 (now 71,000) LDWF [25] Queen Bess Island Wildlife Refuge Jefferson 37 Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge: Cameron Parish, Vermilion Parish: 71,000 State of Louisiana [26] St. Tammany Wildlife Refuge St. Tammany Parish: 1,310
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