Red River

Mario Craver at that school 75 miles away.

Isaiah Cetegna, the one north of the Red River.

Deuce Alexander at Ole Miss.

Ryan Coleman Williams at Alabama.

2.

The Upper Arkansas River and New Spain Pike returned to find his services in demand for a second expedition to the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red Rivers.

The original arrangements contemplated the detail of another officer, but Pike, at the solicitation of General Wilkinson, consented to take command of the party, commenced his preparations at once, and received his formal orders on June 24, 1806, less than two months after his return from the north.

In accepting this long and dangerous service, he indicates clearly the soldierly sense of duty which actuated him.

The late dangers and hardships I had undergone, together with the idea of again leaving my family in a strange country, distant from their connections, made me hesitate.

But the ambition of a soldier and the spirit of enterprise which was inherent in my breast induced me to agree.

The primary object of the expedition, according to the letter of instructions, was to conduct to Grand Osage a deputation of freed captives of the Osage nation, while the subordinate purposes were the accomplishment of a permanent peace between the cause and Osages, and the establishment of a good understanding with the Comanches, which latter object, the letter runs, will probably lead you to the head branches of the Arkansas and Red Rivers, approximated to the settlements of New Mexico, and there you should move with great circumspection to keep clear of any reconnoitering parties from that province and to prevent alarm or offense.

The executive, it was added, is much interested in ascertaining the direction, extent, and navigation of the Arkansas and Red Rivers, which Pike was charged to determine by sending one party down the Arkansas while he should return by the Red.

So we're going to have a cold front move through Oklahoma this afternoon.

Not going to make it into North Texas, but the thunderstorms that form along the front in Oklahoma are gradually going to move south, push an outflow boundary closer to North Texas, mainly along the Red River.

And so what we're hoping is those thunderstorms that form in Oklahoma will move on down into North Texas later this afternoon into the evening hours.

and bring some of us some short-term beneficial rains, not a drought buster by any means, but it definitely should lower the temperature today.

We just don't know.

What we do know is that the summer of 1810 found the four of them floating down the Red River to the Mississippi and down the Mississippi to New Orleans.

They arrived sometime in August, to judge from the date of publication of newspaper reports of their arrival, and it had been almost exactly two years since their ship and shipmates had gone down, and they'd covered a good 3,000 miles.

They had made it.

We got two pieces of these rivalries playing each other, different permutations.

You got Red River in Oklahoma, Texas, playing Michigan, Ohio State, which is awesome.

It was that way last year.

It'll be that way this year.