Robin Cole-JettFeb 19, 2018End of WarThis photograph is possibly the last image of Comanche women in a traditional camp on the open prairie. Comanche women and child at...
Robin Cole-JettFeb 14, 2018Tombstone HistoryTombstones, especially military ones, are great ways to trace histrory. And the history from the tombstone needn’t be a family member,...
Robin Cole-JettFeb 10, 2018A trip to historic ShreveportIn 1958, Martin Luther King, Jr. met with community and NAACP leaders to formulate a school integration plan at the (old) Galilee...
Robin Cole-JettFeb 8, 2018Grayson County Rails (that aren’t Denison. Denison deserves a separate post).Note that the map’s cardinal directions are a bit different. From left to right is north to south. To see a larger image of this map,...
Robin Cole-JettFeb 6, 2018Southwestern TrailOne of the oldest roads in the Red River Valley was the Tennessee to Washington (Hempstead County, Arkansas) to Fulton (Hempstead County)...
Robin Cole-JettFeb 4, 2018Lone GraveAlong a county road in Jackson County, Oklahoma, lies the lonesome grave of Joel Moseley, 1846-1890. Mr. Moseley was born in Georgia and,...
Robin Cole-JettFeb 4, 2018DepredationsIn the 1890s, these unnamed men from Montague County, Texas posed for a photograph after filing claims against the U.S. government for...
Robin Cole-JettFeb 2, 2018Muriel Wright, Oklahoma HistorianBoggy Depot Plan numbers Depot Muriel Wright 1927 1. Gov. Allen Wright’s residence. 2. John. Kingsbury residence. 3. House built by Mr....
Robin Cole-JettFeb 1, 2018Aliens in Wise County, Texas???Near Aurora (Wise County, Texas) is this old grocery store. I wonder if the store was witness to the UFO crash landing, which allegedly...
Robin Cole-JettJan 18, 2018Caddos along the Red River ValleyThree major Native American tribes called the Red River Valley of the Southwest home long before Europeans staked their claims. The...
Robin Cole-JettJan 26, 2016A complaint about accessIndulge me for a moment while I vent a consistent frustration of mine… and probably one experienced by historians (professional and lay...
Robin Cole-JettJan 13, 2016Hobby for nosy peopleI took up a new hobby last year – estate sale shopping. Like my “hobby” of ghost town collecting, this new pastime does not require...
Robin Cole-JettJan 7, 2016What historians doOn my website, Red River Historian, I haven’t often written about controversial topics in history because I tend to shy away from...
Robin Cole-JettJan 3, 2016Death DividedI love strolling through cemeteries – the older and more overgrown, the better, of course. I’m not particularly ghoulish, though. I just...
Robin Cole-JettAug 8, 2015An historic DeathIn the US, death of history is frequent. I’m not talking about historical events today, even though they have their own share of death...
Robin Cole-JettJun 10, 2015A MemoryI decided to get away from the mundane humdrum that is my life (and, to be honest, to find something else to do besides clean the house),...
Robin Cole-JettJun 8, 2015Town BeautifulIs there such a thing as an “urban planning nerd?” Because if there is, then that’s what I am. I have not formally studied this kind of...
Robin Cole-JettMay 16, 2015Antebellum Ghost Towns and the Railroads that did them inI’ve been making several trips around the Red River Valley to discover forgotten towns for my book project this summer. However, I don’t...
Robin Cole-JettNov 24, 2014Louisiana RespectTexas is a big state. It’s also my birthplace and the birthplace of my dad, so of course I feel affinity for it… sometimes. It’s also a...
Robin Cole-JettJun 19, 2014Ruins Tell StoriesLots of the pictures I post on my website, www.redriverhistorian.com, tend to be of ruins – disused buildings and such – and sometimes,...