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Red River Historian
History where the South Meets the West

Welcome to Red River Historian, an educational site devoted to the

Red River region of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.

 History of Where the South meets the West

I'm Robin Cole-Jett, the Red River Historian. For over twenty years, I've been researching, documenting, and sharing the history of the Red River Valley  - Where the South Meets the West - just because I want YOU to enjoy how interesting this region is!

Visit the blog for various Articles on Red River History!

See topics about the Red River Valley in my Collections!

Read all the history of the Red River Valley my Books have to offer!

A Publisher, Writer, and Regional Historian who loves location research and maps. 

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Featured Article:

LiDAR and figuring out the "pimples" along the Red River

Interesting ground-level structures that are no longer surface-level appear on LiDAR map images of areas around the Red River, like this circular structure at Field Bayou in southwestern Arkansas.

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