This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

If not for circuit riders, the pioneers in the early days would have had no access to worship services, revivals, prayer meetings and religious training. When the early settlers began moving into ...

Missionaries, primarily Baptist, Congregational, Catholic and Presbyterian, were the first to bring religion to the Natives living in what would become Nebraska, some as early as the 1830s. With the ...

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 ...