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Where crime did not pay in Henrietta

Drove to Henrietta, Clay County, Texas the other day to take some photos and came across this utilitarian, brick structure behind an...

Coal Country

(Library of Congress) A geological map of coal claims around Coalgate, Coal County, Indian Territory (Oklahoma) from ca. 1900 shows that...

The Southwest Trail of Arkansas

One of the oldest roads in the Red River Valley is the Southwest Trail in Arkansas.

Hobby for nosy people

I took up a new hobby last year – estate sale shopping. Like my “hobby” of ghost town collecting, this new pastime does not require...

What historians do

On my website, Red River Historian, I haven’t often written about controversial topics in history because I tend to shy away from...

Death Divided: Segregation Cemeteries in the Red River Valley

The Red River Valley of the South still contains the remnants of segregation inside many of its cemeteries.

Antebellum Ghost Towns and the Railroads that did them in

Most antebellum towns west of the Mississippi River did not survive the railroad boom and became ghosts.

Moving and Changing in America

My family hails from the South… I mean from way back. They came from the slums of Middlesex, London, and after a generation in Ireland,...