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Robin Cole-Jett
Jan 27, 2019
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...
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Robin Cole-Jett
Feb 5, 2018
The Southwest Trail of Arkansas
One of the oldest roads in the Red River Valley is the Southwest Trail in Arkansas.
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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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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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Robin Cole-Jett
Jan 3, 2016
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.
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Robin Cole-Jett
May 16, 2015
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.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Nov 23, 2012
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,...
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