The Red River, Texas

The River Runs Red
The Red River is a dividing line full of interesting people and tales. Travel this historic corridor along the Texas - Oklahoma border. This segment airs on the Texas Parks and Wildlife television show the week of December 25-31, 2012, and repeats the week of June 24-30, 2012, on the Texas PBS stations. www.tpwd.state.tx.us/tv

[@brink1553]

The old bridge at Carpenters Bluff has been replaced. I am now 69 years old and crossed the bridge many times on the narrow lane intended for horses and wagons. My dad's 63 Chevy truck had wide mirrors and we had to pull the passenger side mirror in to clear the bridge rails. After the railroad was removed, the Grayson County and Bryan County commissioners paved the former railroad side for auto traffic use.

[@hadleymanmusic]

When the horn honked all the dogs jumped to the window barkin runnin back n forth to the door.

[@Ma007rk]

Rivers have always fascinated me ever since I saw a movie in the 8th grade called "Down the Mississippi." It was a movie about a kid that let a plastic or wooden boat go downstream from the source in Minnesota. The boat (supposedly) made it to the Gulf of Mexico, and received help along the way from people who found it.

[@pewdiepiedie9065]

B Brunson 8 months later

[@kathybarker8949]

I lived 6 miles from the Mighty red. Divided my home town if Gainesville and Oklahoma,

[@strokerace5468]

Very interesting. I never knew when I was in Palo Duro Canyon and I would see the trickling river that that was the Red River. Keep up the good videos

[@brink1553]

I should have said the old bridge is still standing. The new bridge is just to the West and is a 2 lane bridge. The old narrow side ( wagon side) of the original railroad bridge was still in use by cars when I took Drivers Education in 1969 because I drove the Pontiac Catilina Drivers Ed. car across.

[@shawndominguez3444]

does the red river flow north

[@kingsolomon3332]

it flows east

[@carywest9256]

There's a Red River of the North which flows north between Minnesota and S.Dakota,N.Dakota into Canada.

[@RaidenWard]

south east

[@coaltin2509]

@@carywest9256 irrelevant

[@Ole_Red]

YOUR DAMN RIGHT THE RIVER RUNS RED BOOMER SOONER

[@samschmit7181]

It doesn't look so red to me.

[@Ole_Red]

Red river rivalry.

[@flippy7540]

Eygglr soap is go out gossip

[@NEO-92]

Ain’t no damn river. More like a creek

[@frankedgar6694]

Obviously you didn’t even watch the entire video. And I’d bet you’ve never stood on the banks of the Red.
If you were a bit better educated on Texas and/or Oklahoma history, you’d know that steam powered paddle wheelers carried cargo up and down the Red. Paddle boats don’t run in creeks.

[@NEO-92]

@@frankedgar6694 the Riverwalk in downtown San Antonio is bigger than the Red Creek

[@frankedgar6694]

@@NEO-92 I’ve walked both. You’re delusional. The Red is 100 or more yards wide in some places and not filled with city filth. I’d bet money the Red is consistently deeper too.
And I’m curious. Name ANY bridge over your river walk that is over a mile long.

[@NEO-92]

Guadeloupe, Medina, San Marcos, Comal, Blanco, and the Sabinal River are all bigger and deeper than your creek. And that’s just the San Antonio area, buddy!

[@frankedgar6694]

@@NEO-92 Woo hoo. Here’s a cookie for you. You sure got lost in the conversation quickly, didn’t you? Remember bragging about the river walk? You set the expectation at dumb then can back sounding even dumber than dumb.