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The Red River is a major river in the Southern United States. It was named for its reddish water color from passing through red-bed country in its watershed. It is known as the Red River of the South to distinguish it from the Red River of the North, which flows between Minnesota and North Dakota into the Canadian province of Manitoba. Although once a tributary of the Mississippi River, the Red River now is a tributary of the Atchafalaya River, a distributary of the Mississippi that flows separately into the Gulf of Mexico. This confluence is connected to the Mississippi River by the Old River Control Structure.

Geography
Course The Red River begins at the junction of Buck Creek and Prairie Dog Town Fork in Harmon County, Oklahoma. Specialists have debated whether the North Fork or the Prairie Dog Town Fork is the true stem. and flow generally southward into the Gulf of Mexico. Tributaries Tributaries include the Little Red River, Prairie Dog Town Fork Red River, Salt Fork Red River, North Fork Red River, Cross Bayou, Pease River, Washita River, Kiamichi River, Wichita River, Little Wichita River, Little River, Sulphur River, Bayou Brevelle, Loggy Bayou (through Lake Bistineau and Dorcheat Bayou), the Blue River, as well as the Ouachita River (also known as the Black River at that point) not far (at Acme, Louisiana) from the mouth. Salinity , a tributary of the upper Red River The river is salty through tributaries above Lake Texoma. The saltiness is caused by Permian salt deposits, mostly sodium chloride. Deposition eventually buried the deposits, but the salt continues to leach through natural seeps in tributaries above Lake Texoma, sending as much as 3,450 tons of salt per day flowing down the Red River. ==Watershed==
Watershed
The watershed covers ==History==
History
Native Americans Native American cultures along the river were diverse, developing specialized adaptations to the many different environments. Having threaded the maze of bayous at the river's confluence and the "Great Raft" of lodged driftwood, the expedition was stopped by the Spanish near present-day New Boston, Texas. In 1806,Lieutenant Zebulon Pike, under orders to ascertain the source of the Red River, ascended the Arkansas River, made his way downstream on what turned out to be the Rio Grande, and was sent home by the Spanish authorities. A more successful exploration of the river's upper reaches to both its sources came with the 1852 expedition under Captain Randolph Barnes Marcy, assisted by Brevet Captain George B. McClellan. A decade later McClellan became an important general in the American Civil War. In April 1815, Captain Henry Miller Shreve was the first person to bring a steamboat, the Enterprise, up the Red River. Fulton and Livingston, who claimed the exclusive right to navigate Louisiana waters by steamboat, sued Shreve in the District Court of New Orleans. The judge ruled that the monopoly claimed by the plaintiffs was illegal. That decision, along with a similar outcome in Gibbons v. Ogden, freed navigation on every river, lake or harbor in the United States from interference by monopolies. When John Quincy Adams became Secretary of State in 1817, one of his highest priorities was to settle with Spain the boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase. He negotiated with Luis de Onís, the Spanish minister to the United States, and finally concluded the Adams–Onis Treaty, also known as the Treaty of 1819. The treaty defined the south bank of the river as the boundary between the United States and Spain, as of when it was surveyed and demarcated following 1819. That boundary continued to be recognized when Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821, and ongoingly when Texas became independent from Mexico in 1835–1836. It remained the official boundary 2015 Red River flood In June 2015, the Red River flooded parts of northeast Texas, southwest Arkansas, southeast Oklahoma and Louisiana, from Denison Dam to just south of Alexandria, Louisiana. The river reached its highest level in over 70 years, cresting in most of the affected areas at around 6–9 feet over the flood levels. At 4 PM on June 9, the river reached its maximum height of 37.14 feet. Bridge, atop the Red River between Bossier and Caddo parishes near Shreveport , Louisiana ==Recreation==
Recreation
In 1943, Denison Dam was built on the Red River to form Lake Texoma, a large reservoir of , some north of Dallas. Other reservoirs on the river's tributaries serve as flood control. ==See also==
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