Mound City in Red River County, Texas once welcomed steamboats in the 1870s

The Natchez settlement that was destroyed by French troops and Choctaw, Houma, and Tunica allies in the early 1730s.

In 1887, O.L. Coleman opened a school for African American children in Gibsland, Louisiana.

I became good friends with some curious cows as I visited the remains of the former Fairview School, Greer County, Oklahoma.

Leon Hinds, Band of Brothers Grave

The Resettlement Administration was defunded when sharecroppers tenant farms were added to the program.

The construction of Denison Dam restricted accessing between Texas and Oklahoma. Bring on the ferry!

Willie Nelson is now 90 years old! A census update.

Randolph B. Marcy was not impressed by the people who lived in the Red River Valley.