Caddo Lake is one of those places in the world where the line between reality and myth is blurred. It is on the Texas-Louisiana border and sits on 25,400 acres of wetland. It is shrouded in mystery.

For one, much of Northwest Louisiana was known as the ... the riverbed and better drainage, silver Lake disappeared,” wrote Viola Carruth in CADDO: 1,000, a history of the Shreveport Area ...

“Caddo Lake would virtually become a mud hole,” he warned the crowd, explaining how voluntary water releases from Lake O’ the Pines sustain Caddo’s delicate wetland ecosystem downstrea ...