Bolton High School - Bruin Yearbook (Alexandria, LA)

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c o N T E N T S Behold! The Great Raft! This immense tangle of debris that started by a few jammed cypress Jogs, augmented to such a size as to take twenty-four years to clear. It began its hindrance to navigation before the earliest French explorers set foot oil the present-day Louisiana and was not cleared until 1833. When the impediment was finally removed by the United States, large trees were found growing on it and in several more years the channel of the river would have found a new course. I he Red River with its tributaries and great raft pictures the theme of this entire book, which deals with its navigation. As this map is the virtual gateway to a re- production of Bolton's school life, it represents that section whence our school and our community have developed. 7

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ORDER OF BOOKS FACULTY CLASSES ORGANIZATIONS FEATURES Thirteen Nineteen Fifty-Three Seventy-One ATHLETIC Eighty-One

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This was a its waters from Alexandria and familiar scene on Red River during the days when palatial steamboats plied its junction with the Mississippi as lar north as Shreveport, bringing cargoes to other cities along tin» hanks. The era of “the good old times in Louisiana reached its palmiest days when the cotton, sugar, and rice of Red River valley were carried by steamboat down the Red to the Mississippi, thence to New Orleans and the world markets. Prosperous plantations with their spacious mansions, gleaming through avenues of moss-draped liveoaks dotted the hanks of the Red. These silent sentinels tell tin traveler the story of a magnificent past.