Caddo Lake islocated on the border between Marshal, Texas and Shreveport, Louisiana.The lake is 30,000 acres in size with an average depth of 8 feet and is 80 percent covered with Cyprus trees.It provides some of the best fishing and duck hunting found anywhere.It is also home to an ugly assortment of very mean and lethal wild critters which included alligators, wild cats and prime examples of all four types of the four poisonous snakes found in North America which are corral snakes, rattlesnakes, copperheads and the cottonmouth moccasin.
Marshall; and nearby, Karnack is the childhood home of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson and the Old City of Jefferson, famous as th e commercial center of northeast Texas during the first half of the 19th century.
The Longhorn Ordnance Works was a GOCO (government owned contractor operated) TNT plant during WWII that had been closed after the war.Thiokol Chemical Corporation had been selected to act as manager with a resident Ordnance Officer overseeing the contract.
Thiokol had developed a new and exciting solid rocket technology, based on it’s own liquid polymers, which seemed to me to hold great promise for the future of the big missile systems.
Wildcats
Gaters
Karnack
Bass
Crappie
Haddads
Catfish
15 foot cottonmouth
Private duck blinds Bobby Pressler legal limit etc.