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- ↑ "Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana Rivers, Lakes & Streams". louisiana.msghn.org. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
- ↑ Bulletin United States Geological Survey - Number 194. Department of the Interior. 1902. p. 37.
- ↑ "Bayou Hoffpauir". geonames.usgs.gov. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
- ↑ Joiner, Gary D.; D, Professor of History Louisiana State University Gary D. Joiner, PH (2007). Little to Eat and Thin Mud to Drink: Letters, Diaries, and Memoirs from the Red River Campaigns, 1863-1864. Univ. of Tennessee Press. p. 168. ISBN 978-1-57233-571-4.