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1996 Caddo Lake Trip Report

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Indian According to a Caddoan legend, Caddo Lake was formed by an earthquake. A Caddo Indian Chief was warned by the Great Spirit to move his village from the low lands. The Chief ignored the warning and one day while he and his men were out hunting the ground shook. When they returned, their village was gone beneath the water of the newly formed Caddo Lake.

There could be some truth to this story. In 1811 New Madrid, Missouri had an earthquake that measured 8.9. This could have knocked down enough trees to form the great raft that dammed the Red River and formed Caddo Lake.
For more information on the Caddo Indians:

"Indian Depredations In Texas"
By: J. W. WILBALGER

An Online Report:
"A History of the Caddo Indians"
By: WILLIAM B. GLOVER
"Hasinai: A Traditional History of the Caddo Confederacy",
By VYNOLA NEWKUMET and HOWARD L. MERIDITH,
(College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1988).
"Source Material on the History and Ethnology of the Caddo Indians",
By JOHN R. SWANTON,
(Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1996).
"The Hasinai Indians of East Texas as Seen by Europeans, 1687-1772",
By WILLIAM JOYCE GRIFFITH,
Middle American Research Institute, Philological and Documentary Studies, Vol. II, No. 3,
(New Orleans: Tulane University, 1954), pp. 43-165. 
"The Hasinais: Southern Caddoans as Seen by the Earliest Europeans",
By HERBERT EUGENE BOLTON,
Edited By RUSSELL M. MAGNAGHI
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987).
"The Caddo Indians: Tribes at the Convergence of Empires, 1542-1854",
By F. TODD SMITH,
(College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1995).
"The Caddos, the Wichitas, and the United States, 1846-1901",
By F. TODD SMITH,
(College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1996).

Further Reading About The Caddo Lake Area:



Moore, Wyatt A.:
Every Sun That Rises

Dalmer, Fred:
Caddo Was
A Short History of Caddo Lake

If you are interested in knowing about the plants and animals found in the Caddo Lake area, look up the checklists put out by the Museum of Life Sciences of Louisiana State University in Shreveport.

The Historic Caddo Lake Drawbridge
MOORINGSPORT, LOUISIANA
Website of: Darren Guin


Click the button above to visit the Uncertain, Tx. web page !
  • Uncertain, Texas: A Song by Rodney Crowell & Richard Dobson

    • Recorded by Guy Clark; on the Craftsman album.
  • Could the Caddo Indians have been visited by the Transmigratory Spirit of a Spanish Nun as early as 1620 ? Decide for yourself after reading the legend of The Lady in Blue. 

Darwin Award Candidate
January 1999

Don't ask God to prove Himself, He just might . . . A lawyer and two of his buddies were fishing on Caddo Lake in Texas. A lightening storm hit the lake and most of the fishermen immediately headed for the shore. But not our friend the lawyer. He was alone on the rear of his aluminum bass boat and his buddies were in the front. This gentleman stood up, spread his arms wide (crucifixion style) and shouted: "HERE I AM LORD, LET ME HAVE IT!" Needless to say, God delivered (well, wouldn't you?). The other two passengers on the boat survived and are said to have immediately joined the Ministry.


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