The Red River is a major river in the Southern United States. It was named for its reddish water color from passing through red-bed country in its watershed. It is known as the Red River of the South
Red River looking east, north of Bonham, Texas: Texas is to the right, Oklahoma is on the left, and the border between the two states runs along the south (right) bank of the river.
Point bars, abandoned meander loops, oxbow lakes in Lafayette and Miller counties, Arkansas
State Highway No. 78 Bridge at the Red River between Oklahoma and Texas, photographed on the Oklahoma side
Crossing the Red River at the Texas–Oklahoma border from I-35
The Great Raft was an enormous log jam or series of "rafts" that covered the Red and Atchafalaya rivers in North America from perhaps the 12th century until its destruction in the 1830s. It was unique
Red River of the South
…in truth, next to the Missouri, the most interesting water of the Mississippi". Having threaded the maze of bayous at the river's confluence and the "Great Raft" of lodged driftwood, the expedition was stopped by the Spanish near present-day New Boston, Texas. In 1806, Lieutenant Zebulon Pike, under orders to…
The Second Great Raft in 1873, photographed by Robert B. Talfor
U.S. Aid, clearing logjam in the Red River, Louisiana. Plate XV of the photographic album Photographic Views of Red River Raft, 1873
Plate CVII: Steamer Bryarly entering Red River through Sale & Murphy's Canal, 1873