In 1837, when Daniel Rowlett petitioned the Texas Congress to divide Red River County west of the Bois d'Arc, he suggested the name Independence.

Part 2 of my Black History Month focus could be entitled: "scientists' recent affirmation that civilized humankind began in Africa shows us that the first human civilizations were black."

The Red River Expedition of 1806 was supposed to be another in a string of scientific triumphs for the United States as it explored the new territories of the Louisiana Purchase.

Naming this area the Gulf of the Americas would be a major step in understanding our neighbors and sharing a geographical understanding of our interrelatedness.

On December 5, 1994 Ukraine signed an agreement wherein it would dispose of its nuclear weapons, which were the world's third largest nuclear arsenal, for a guarantee by the U.S., UK and Russia to provide Ukraine's security. Ukraine relinquished its nuclear weapons to Russia. Subsequently, Russia attacked Ukraine in 2014 and occupied Crimea.

More than 3,100 children in Fannin County could benefit from approximately $378,000 with the Summer EBT program.

'A hedgerow of bois d’arc was bull-strong, horse-high, and pig-tight,' old experts said. Horse Apple fence posts also last long. The wood is even good for the dead.

In honor of Black History Month, I want to introduce some acronyms and explain what it stands for and what role it played in African American History especially with relation to Liberia and Egypt.

Where is the protection of rural America and the people that seek its solace? Are we all doomed to carry the weight of the expanding exploits of the city?

Peace talks can bring an end to the immediate violence and deaths but remain only 'talks' when extremists on both sides have the goal of destroying the other.

The idea of a trek along the Red River to find out more about the reach of the river, its wildlife, and the Native American tribes that lived along it had been conceived not long after Louisiana had been purchased from France.

Quanah Parker spent much of his life caught between two worlds.