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Shreveport   /ʃrˈivpˌɔrt/   Listen
Shreveport

noun
1.
A city in northwest Louisiana on the Red River near the Texas border.





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"Shreveport" Quotes from Famous Books



... were yet far from accepting the idea of separate political action. President Macune of the Southern Alliance probably voiced the sentiments of most of that order when he said in his address to the delegates at Shreveport in 1887: "Let the Alliance be a business organization for business purposes, and as such, necessarily secret, and as secret, necessarily nonpolitical."* Even the Northwestern Alliance had given no sign of official approval to the political party ...
— The Agrarian Crusade - A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics • Solon J. Buck
... system now put in motion further plans for expansion. In 1890 it acquired a system of lines extending south from Cincinnati to Vicksburg and Shreveport, known as the Queen and Crescent route, and in the meantime made a close alliance with the Atlantic Coast Line system. By the end of 1891 the Richmond Terminal system embraced over 8500 miles of railroad, while the Louisville and Nashville, the next ...
— The Railroad Builders - A Chronicle of the Welding of the States, Volume 38 in The - Chronicles of America Series • John Moody


Words linked to "Shreveport" :   city, metropolis, la, Louisiana, urban center, Pelican State


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