| Traveling History Up the Cattle Trails - $10 The guides to the mythic trails! With photos, maps, travel tips, and a thorough background history of the cattle road that brought both Texas and the Indian Territory out of Reconstruction - and into the legends of the Old West. Available at Amazon.com and at Barnes & Noble. Orders from redriverhistorian.com receive autographed copies |
| Presentations offered at museums, historic sites, continuing education programs, senior centers, schools, libraries, businesses. Includes Power Point presentation. Gear provided by me. $50 to $150 robin@redriverhistorian.com |
Book a private tour for a deep dive into the history of Bonnie
Parker, Clyde Barrow, and the City of Dallas in this fun and
informative, four-hour tour that takes you through West Dallas,
Love Field neighborhood, Uptown, Old East Dallas, Downtown,
and Oak Cliff. Explore gangster-era Dallas with writer and
historian, Robin Cole-Jett!
robin@redriverhistorian.com
Parker, Clyde Barrow, and the City of Dallas in this fun and
informative, four-hour tour that takes you through West Dallas,
Love Field neighborhood, Uptown, Old East Dallas, Downtown,
and Oak Cliff. Explore gangster-era Dallas with writer and
historian, Robin Cole-Jett!
- $100 for two, $110 for three, and $120 for four people in
my private car. - Larger groups possible with provided transport.
- E-mail me to book in advance.
- Will pick up and drop off within a 30 mile radius of
downtown Dallas.
robin@redriverhistorian.com
| Model A Club Bonnie and Clyde Tour, 2009 |
| The Red River in Arkansas $15 Revel in the intricate history of the Great Bend Region, where borders collided in the early 19th century. Read about the peoples and places that make southwestern Arkansas such an incredibly interesting place. Published by History Press. Available at Amazon.com and at Barnes & Noble Orders from redriverhistorian.com receive autographed copies |
| Traveling History with Bonnie and Clyde - $10 Discover the sites (and sights) that still contain the ghosts of the most famous crime duo in the Southwest. With photos, maps, travel tips, and a thorough background history of the seedy underside of Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. Available at Amazon.com and at Barnes & Noble. Orders from redriverhistorian.com receive autographed copies |
| Image of America: Lewisville $15 Images of America: Lewisville (Texas) combines many historic photographs with captions explaining the progression of a small farming community to a growing suburb just north of Dallas and Fort Worth. Published by Arcadia. Available at Amazon.com and at Barnes & Noble. Orders from redriverhistorian.com receive autographed copies |
| Traveling History among the Ghosts - $10 Discover how today's ghost towns along the Red River were yesterday's busy hubs. This guide takes you through the ghost towns of the Old Southwest, from plantations to cattle towns, with comprehensive histories and detailed directions. Available at Amazon.com and at Barnes & Noble. Orders from redriverhistorian.com receive autographed copies. |
| Implementing effective educational programs in Museums While the purpose of museums is to provide educational content, what are the actual take-aways visitors gain from your programs? You can pinpoint your educational objective using the verbs found in Bloom's Taxonomy. See how to do it in this short video! |
| Documenting the Research Journey in Museum Work If your exhibits and programs never change, they become stale for both visitors and staff. To be dynamic, museum workers should use the social scientific methods of replication and reflexivity. Learn about these easy methods that can help your museum, using the tools you already have! |
| Use the Technology you have to get the Museum you want Large scale exhibits, virtual tours and virtual exhibits are not just products that big, well-funded museums can offer. Small museums have the same capabilities using the technology and software they already have, such as Power Point, Windows Photos, and Movie Maker. |
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| Good Roads in the Red River Valley Coming Soon! An adventure in discovering the way people traveled in the time before Interstates and even federal highways in the Old Southwest: A Road Tripper's essential: Ozark Trail; Jefferson Highway; King of Trails Bankhead Highway; Meridian Highway; Dixie Overland Trail; Lee Highway; Routes 77, 82, 66, and 71! |
| CREATIVE SERVICES |
| RESEARCH Let me help your project find the right location and information! Whether a fictional film, documentary, commercial or photography project, I can assist you with my extensive knowledge of the Red River Valley. $50 and up. robin@redriverhistorian.com |
| GENEALOGY Ancestry searches and family write ups, with emphasis on queries focusing on the Red River Valley of the Southwest, for reasonable rates. Dependant on location and effort; $50 and up. robin@redriverhistorian.com |
| FAMILY, HOUSE, PLANTATION, OR RANCH HISTORIES Consultations on writing, editing, and publishing your own historical book, or let me do the work: I can write, edit, and publish your book for you, with you holding the copyright. Rates are reasonable and project/scope dependant. robin@redriverhistorian.com |
| CULTURAL SERVICES |
| Exhibit research and design as well as educational programming implementation. Clients include museums, cities, and historic sites. Whether you're a small museum, library, or a private individual, I can assist you in cultural work by designing exhibits, educational programming, writing grants, researching and writing your history, publishing your book or website, preserving your collections, creating a working archive, and more! Services are very affordable, geared towards small institutions, and based on over twenty years of researching and documenting the history of the Red River Valley. Previous clients include Denton County Office of History & Culture; City of Lewisville; Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site; Confederate Reunion Grounds State Historic Site; Morton Museum; Medal of Honor Foundation; ArtReach robin@redriverhistorian.com |
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