In a message dated 2/2/2006 2:50:36 PM Central Standard Time, shadowbear270@webtv.net writes: My people did live just soulh of Ark.in the Red River country in Texas==You sure are right about this lack of rain makes you think of the dust bowl SHADOW BEAR A lot of my Grandmother's family was in Texas around Gainesville. He Father's name was Gaines Parkhill and his Father was scalped and killed by a group of Indian raiders. But that is history and in the past. I am just rambling. Barbara In Oklahoma Native America