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...unbent, drank nothing stronger than beer. He thought nothing of working 16 to 18 hours a day, kept himself in prime physical condition. His performance in the recent Louisiana maneuvers was outstanding. He often took chances he would permit none of his men to take. Piloting his plane from Shreveport to Lake Charles, he was advised that half-a-gale was blowing, that he couldn't possibly come...
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...enclose a photograph of the central mural, one of five, which adorns the walls of Shreveport's newest skyscraper. This particular panel depicts Captain Henry Shreve, breaking up the great raft on Red River at a point where the city of Shreveport now stands. This, I believe, gives the lie to the caption "Shreveport forgot him," which appears below a likeness of Henry Shreve . . . in your Oct. 27 issue...
Vice President and Trust Officer Commercial National Bank in Shreveport Shreveport...
...white ways to pass, for felled forest to stand again, for the buffalo to return." One windy evening in 1851 (the year the Pacific Railroad was begun and the future river pilot, Mark Twain, was 16) Henry Shreve taciturnly died. In a few decades the citizens of Shreveport, La. no longer remembered for whom their town had been named...