Show great alector AlUc t tor alligators were formerly one of the chief animal life ilia tenants of red bed river riter and the bayous of louisiana where be fk flare steamboat navigation came to interrupt them they could be seen by hundreds huddled together on the ban banks or massed assed on the floating or stationary togs espe especially dally of red bed river waking the solitudes of the forest with their bull like bellowing breir leth length was generally generah between tight and twelve feet fee sa although though they time t times grew to be twenty tw ty feet long their that hides were once used ix ly tor for the MM malang ot of shoes oat but the leather not proving of sufficiently iose close c texture to keep water out aboe ft jhb his material materia was VUR abandoned |