Legendary Locals of Shreveport chronicles fascinating people who have made a difference in the Shreveport�Bossier City area. Some are good; some are bad; and more than a few are wicked. There are movie starlets; entertainers; decorated war veterans; gangsters; preachers; madams; politicians; giants of industry; and humble folk who rose to greatness or infamy. Shreveport began as a rough and tumble frontier town that came late to being �civilized.� A Baptist preacher shot one of Quantrill�s Raiders when he rode his horse into church during a Sunday service. The most famous madam in the region was also a suffragette. The first successful bankers in Shreveport were immigrants from Prussia who developed a business model that extends into the modern era. Shreveport lost one quarter of its population in less than a month due to a yellow fever epidemic. And that is just the beginning.
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