1   Carruth, Viola. Caddo: 1,000.  Shreveport: Shreveport Magazine, 1971. 20, 22.

2   Thomson, Bailey. Historic Shreveport. Shreveport: Shreveport Journal Publishers, 1980. 4.

3   Henrici, Holice H. Shreveport: The Beginnings. Lafayette: University of Southwest Louisiana: 1985. 28.

4   Henrici; Carruth; Sarrazin, Jean Fairly. “Story of Shreve family reveals character of Shreveport’s founder.”
    Shreveport Times.  13. 24 Aug. 1941. Louisiana State University in Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives
    and Special Collections.  VF: Henry Miller Shreve.
 

5   Sarrazin.

6   Brock, Eric. “Henry Miller Shreve ranks among most important American inventors.” Forum News [Shreveport].  
    28 Nov. 2001. 21. Louisiana State University in Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special
    Collections.  VF: Henry Miller Shreve.  
 

7   Sarrazin.
 

8   Carruth, 21.

9   Carruth, 25-26; “Shreveport street names recall events and leaders in city’s history.” Shreveport Times. 13
    Aug. 1939. 11. Louisiana State University in Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections.
    VF: Shreveport History.
 

10  McLaurin, Ann, ed. Glimpses of Shreveport. Natchitoches: Northwestern University Press, 1985. 8, Henrici.
 

11  Carruth, 26, 28.
 

12  Henrici.

13  Henrici, 65-67; Thomson, Bailey and Patricia L. Meador. Shreveport: A Photographic Remembrance, 1873-
     1949. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. 8.
 

14  McLaurin, 22.
 

15  Thomson, Historic Shreveport, 66.
 

16  McLaurin, 22.

17  Thomson and Meador, 9; Finley, Milton. “The Confederate Capital in the West.” Glimpses of Shreveport. Ann
     McLaurin, ed. Natchitoches: Northwestern State University Press, 1985. 39.
 

18  Thomson and Meador.
 

19  Carruth 26.

20  Finley, 41.
 

21  Thomson and Meador, 10.