In the early 1960's there were a rash of U.F.O. sightings and abductions. There were so many credible reports that the government appointed a special commission to investigate. Many were dismissed as swamp gas, sunspots or wild imaginations. Some could not be explained. This Story is about one of those abductions. Jack Moore, a candy salesman in 1962, was abducted while on his delivery route and returned 50 years later to the same spot that he was abducted. Yet he had not aged while he was gone. He could not remember what had happened during those missing years, however, he knew things that...

In the early 1800's the new government was encouraging people to go west and settle the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase. This story is about one of those families. Herschel and Rachel Ledbetter took their thirteen children and headed west in search of free land and a new beginning. They followed National Road from North Carolina to the Mississippi River, then headed south on the Southwest Trail to the Fourche River. That was where the New Madrid earthquake changed everything. This story is about the Ledbetter family and the rise and fall of Old Davidsonville, the oldest settlement in...

Tukamendada watched in horror as the row boats neared the shore. He was the son of Chief Abeokuta of the Bantu tribe in central Ivory Coast, Africa, and had been captured while visiting a neighbors tribe. His visit was to marry the daughter of the Chief of that tribe. He had pleaded with the slave traders to release him, arguing that he was not of that tribe, but they did not heed his pleas. He was branded on the chest along with the one hundred others captured in the raid. Tukamendada was among the first to be taken to the ship that awaited its cargo of slaves. He spoke to the captain of the...

In the late 1600s, French explorers from Canada reached the lower Mississippi Valley and claimed it for France under the name Louisiana. Sieur d'Iberville established the first French settlement at Old Biloxi in 1699. King Louis XIV sent a group of men, led by Jean Baptiste, to strengthen Frances hold along the confines of the Mississippi River. This story is about those men and their impact on the settlement of the New World. It covers the Land Grant given by King Louis XIV to the Quapaw Indians for their role in helping secure a lasting foothold in the Mississippi Delta. It covers the rise...

In 1541, Hernando De Soto slaughtered all the people of a tiny village of Quapaw Indians except for a 15 year old boy named Kyota. Kyota fought back killing many Spanish soldiers, and finally put the fatal shot into De Soto. The village was rebuilt, and Kyota vowed to never allow his village be destroyed again. But he died in 1593, leaving his son Cotekya in charge of their safety. The village is near Spirit Lake, as the Indians called it, and is nestled in the foothills of the Osark Mountain range in Northeast Arkansas, near the present day town of Pocahontas. The year is 1610 and the...

This is the story of a young Quapaw Indian boy who lived in northeast Arkansas, just north of the present day city of Pocahontas, in the year 1541, and how his life was drastically changed by events not of his choosing. How he took on the mighty De Soto and his entire army, as he sought revenge for what De Soto had done to his people. He was the last of his tribe, and he would slay the famous conquistador, De Soto. Kyota was transformed from a young boy, who simply wished to be a great hunter, into a great warrior, and the legend of Spirit Lake.