Episodes Located: RAPIDES, Louisiana in the 1830's

  1. The Dutch Ferryman
    date 1835map RAPIDES, Louisianatags Agriculture, Church/Religious-Activity, Economy, Migration/Transportation, Native-Americans

    Presbyterian Reverend Timothy Flint had been settled with his family in Alexandria, Louisiana for 10 years when he set out at the age of 55 to explore the Red River and the people who lived along it. Commissioned by the Missionary Society of Connecticut in 1815 to preach Christianity to the masses of emigrants moving west, Flint was no stranger to such exploration. He ministered in the Ohio Valley,...