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This is the Great Raft. I’d never heard of the great raft. It was a historic log jam, the largest in the known universe, and also the unknown universe. The whole red river, just jammed with trees from…some event…. For one hundred and fifty miles. An unbelievable, indescribable log jam. Of course our heroes in the book spend three weeks chopping their way through trees to haul their three keel boats up into Louisiana, y’know, like chumps, but that wasn’t good enough for one Mr. Captain Henry Miller Shreve. Shreve knew his way around. He was the first riverboat captain to sail the Ohio/Mississippi rivers down to New Orleans and back. Log jams were not conducive to good sailing He put a crane on a paddle boat on the orders of the Secretary of War and set out to drain him some swamp. The result was called a snag boat. It took Shreve seven years to completely clear a hundred and fifty miles of impossible logjam. They named the town of Shreveport in his honor.

(song related: youtu.be/WYRtziLzSjQ )(that’s my great-uncle in the invisible coonskin cap)

Oh yeah, buy the book, I’ve been assured by the printer that Amazon is being their usual non-agile selves and showing later shipping dates than they’re actually making. It’s in stock, it’s hot. Get yours today here: amzn.to/2NhwMN2 and I get a little commission

Description

This is the Great Raft. I’d never heard of the great raft. It was a historic log jam, the largest in the known universe, and also the unknown universe. The whole red river, just jammed with trees from…some event…. For one hundred and fifty miles. An unbelievable, indescribable log jam. Of course our heroes in the book spend three weeks chopping their way through trees to haul their three keel boats up into Louisiana, y’know, like chumps, but that wasn’t good enough for one Mr. Captain Henry Miller Shreve. Shreve knew his way around. He was the first riverboat captain to sail the Ohio/Mississippi rivers down to New Orleans and back. Log jams were not conducive to good sailing He put a crane on a paddle boat on the orders of the Secretary of War and set out to drain him some swamp. The result was called a snag boat. It took Shreve seven years to completely clear a hundred and fifty miles of impossible logjam. They named the town of Shreveport in his honor.

(song related: youtu.be/WYRtziLzSjQ )(that’s my great-uncle in the invisible coonskin cap)

Oh yeah, buy the book, I’ve been assured by the printer that Amazon is being their usual non-agile selves and showing later shipping dates than they’re actually making. It’s in stock, it’s hot. Get yours today here: amzn.to/2NhwMN2 and I get a little commission