Abstract
Period records, such as the reports of Many, Bonnell and Riley, clearly make reference to at least four Caddo villages located between the Red River and the United States-Mexico/Texas boundary in the mid-1830s. In the early 1990s, one of these sites, Timber Hill, was located just to the west of Jim's Bayou in Marion County. In this article I will discuss the location and demise of at least four and possible five additional 1830s-era villages located south of Caddo Lake. In the interest of preserving the sites mentioned, the specific locations of the villages discussed in this article are approximate.
Highlights
Reports by Many, Bonnell, and Riley in the period leading up to and immediately after Texas Independence make clear there were at least four Caddo villages found within the bounds of the United States in the area between the Lake Sodo complex and the Sabine River
In mid-October 1812, Darby. a nineteenth-century geographer and manof-letters, left Natchitoches, Louisiana, and made his way southwest in an effort to locate the elusive intersection of the Sabine River and 32°N latitude, 3 a significant reference point first noted in the NeutraJ Ground Agreement of 1806
While it is not possible to precisely locate Darby's point of intersection, and his line north to the Red River, a comparison of landmarks present on the Mel ish map and modern topographic maps (l1igure l) suggests the Line to have been located within a quarter of a mile either side of the line that passed between Section 3 and 4 of Northwest Louisiana's Range 17 West
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Part of the American Material Culture Commons, Archaeological Anthropology Commons, Environmental Studies Commons, Other American Studies Commons, Other Arts and Humanities Commons, Other History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons, and the United States History Commons Tell us how this article helped you. Cite this Record Tiller, Jim (2007) "The Shreveport Caddo, 1835-1838," Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State: Vol 2007, Article 22. This article is available in Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita/vol2007/iss1/22
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