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    End of War
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Feb 19, 2018

    End of War

    This photograph is possibly the last image of Comanche women in a traditional camp on the open prairie. Comanche women and child at...
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    Tombstone History
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Feb 14, 2018

    Tombstone History

    Tombstones, especially military ones, are great ways to trace histrory. And the history from the tombstone needn’t be a family member,...
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    A trip to historic Shreveport
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Feb 10, 2018

    A trip to historic Shreveport

    In 1958, Martin Luther King, Jr.  met with community and NAACP leaders to formulate a school integration plan at the (old) Galilee...
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    Grayson County Rails (that aren’t Denison. Denison deserves a separate post).
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Feb 8, 2018

    Grayson 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,...
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    Southwestern Trail
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Feb 6, 2018

    Southwestern Trail

    One of the oldest roads in the Red River Valley was the Tennessee to Washington (Hempstead County, Arkansas) to Fulton (Hempstead County)...
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    Lone Grave
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Feb 4, 2018

    Lone Grave

    Along a county road in Jackson County, Oklahoma, lies the lonesome grave of Joel Moseley, 1846-1890. Mr. Moseley was born in Georgia and,...
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    Depredations
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Feb 4, 2018

    Depredations

    In the 1890s, these unnamed men from Montague County, Texas posed for a photograph after filing claims against the U.S. government for...
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    Muriel Wright, Oklahoma Historian
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Feb 2, 2018

    Muriel Wright, Oklahoma Historian

    Boggy Depot Plan numbers Depot Muriel Wright 1927 1. Gov. Allen Wright’s residence. 2. John. Kingsbury residence. 3. House built by Mr....
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    Aliens in Wise County, Texas???
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Feb 1, 2018

    Aliens 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...
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    Caddos along the Red River Valley
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Jan 18, 2018

    Caddos along the Red River Valley

    Three major Native American tribes called the Red River Valley of the Southwest home long before Europeans staked their claims. The...
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    A complaint about access
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Jan 26, 2016

    A complaint about access

    Indulge me for a moment while I vent a consistent frustration of mine… and probably one experienced by historians (professional and lay...
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    Hobby for nosy people
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Jan 13, 2016

    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...
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    What historians do
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Jan 7, 2016

    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...
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    Death Divided
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Jan 3, 2016

    Death Divided

    I love strolling through cemeteries – the older and more overgrown, the better, of course. I’m not particularly ghoulish, though. I just...
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    An historic Death
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Aug 8, 2015

    An historic Death

    In the US, death of history is frequent. I’m not talking about historical events today, even though they have their own share of death...
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    A Memory
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Jun 10, 2015

    A Memory

    I 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),...
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    Town Beautiful
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Jun 8, 2015

    Town Beautiful

    Is 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...
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    Antebellum Ghost Towns and the Railroads that did them in
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • May 16, 2015

    Antebellum Ghost Towns and the Railroads that did them in

    I’ve been making several trips around the Red River Valley to discover forgotten towns for my book project this summer. However, I don’t...
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    Louisiana Respect
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Nov 24, 2014

    Louisiana Respect

    Texas 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...
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    Ruins Tell Stories
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Jun 19, 2014

    Ruins Tell Stories

    Lots of the pictures I post on my website, www.redriverhistorian.com, tend to be of ruins – disused buildings and such – and sometimes,...
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