The Gathered Words is documentary history and personal interpretation of Mulberry, a small Texas farm and ranch community in one deep bend of Red River. Beginning in the days of the Republic, the account describes "Indian troubles," fatally contested land surveys, and a pre-Civil War plantation. Filled with colorful personalities, the history of this remote riparian culture unfolds vividly from the earliest days of settlement through Reconstruction, the Great Depression, and poignant stories of tenant farmers, black, hispanic, white, as they battle heat, cold, drought, discrimination and...