Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: Belcher, Louisiana, Benton, Louisiana, Blanchard, Louisiana, Bossier City, Louisiana, Bossier Parish, Louisiana, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, Eastwood, Louisiana, Fair Park Medical Careers Magnet High School, Frierson, Louisiana, Gilliam, Louisiana, Grand Cane, Louisiana, Greenwood, Louisiana, Haughton, Louisiana, Hosston, Louisiana, Ida, Louisiana, Keachi, Louisiana, Keithville, Louisiana, Kingston, Louisiana, Logansport, Louisiana, Longstreet, Louisiana, Mansfield, Louisiana, Mooringsport, Louisiana, Oil City, Louisiana, Plain Dealing, Louisiana, Red Chute, Louisiana, Rodessa, Louisiana, Shreveport, Louisiana, South Mansfield, Louisiana, Stanley, Louisiana, Stonewall, Louisiana, Vivian, Louisiana. Excerpt: Shreveport is the third largest city in the U.S State of Louisiana and the 108th-largest city in the United States. It is the seat of Caddo Parish and extends along the Red River (most notably at Wright Island, the Charles and Marie Hamel Memorial Park, and Bagley Island) into neighboring Bossier Parish. Bossier City is separated from Shreveport by the Red River. The population was 199,311 at the 2010 census, and the Shreveport-Bossier City Metropolitan Area population exceeds 439,800.. The Shreveport-Bossier City Metropolitan Statistical Area ranks 117th in the United States, according to the United States Census Bureau. Shreveport was founded in 1805 by the Shreve Town Company, a corporation established to develop a town at the juncture of the newly navigable Red River and the Texas Trail, an overland route into the newly independent Republic of Texas and, prior to that time, into Mexico. Shreveport is the commercial and cultural center of the Ark-La-Tex, the area where Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas meet. Many people in the community refer to the two cities of Shreveport and Bossier...

Neil Johnson, a native Shreveporter and one of Louisiana's finest photographers, here presents a lovingly crafted portrait of his hometown and its companion city across the Red River. No one else could have done it better. For longtime residents, Johnson's words and photographs will carry the comfortable familiarity of a family album - yet one that also holds new discoveries waiting to be made. For visitors, the book will be a powerful introduction and guide. As veteran Shreveport journalist Jim Montgomery points out in his informative Foreword, Shreveport and Bossier City are a multifaceted place, a place of contrasts: a part of Louisiana, yet with an unmistakable touch of Texas; possessed of a Sun Belt vitality, yet cherishing strong links to the traditions of the Old South. Neil Johnson manages to capture on film the authentic diversity of this place of pulsating repose.