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FREEMAN'S EXPEDITION

FREEMAN'S EXPEDITION was arranged to carry out President Thomas Jefferson's orders in 1805 to explore the Red River of Louisiana and Texas. With a party of twenty-five men and three boats, Thomas Freeman left Fort Adams, Mississippi, at the mouth of Red River, in April 1806. Forty-five miles above Natchitoches, Louisiana, the party left the last white settlement behind. At a point 635 miles from the mouth of the Red River, the ...

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