This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ALEXANDRIA, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A more than ...

One of the joys of historical research is stumbling upon a previously unknown source. The thrill of discovery is even greater when the source is interestingly written. Recently I discovered a memoir ...

Methodism enjoyed widespread growth in America in the middle to late 1700s and 1800s because of its "circuit riders." Circuit riders, also called "saddlebag preachers," were a different kind of clergy ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A more than two-hundred-year-old tale about a circuit-riding preacher named John Shrock proves that some Americans in the Red River Valley during the early 1800s had the ...