The Red River Bridge War: A Texas-Oklahoma Border Battle

An account of the 1931 conflict between Texas and Oklahoma that had lasting consequences. This cautionary tale provides historical context for the current trend of re-privatizing our nation’s highway infrastructure.

Presenter Rusty Williams

Rusty Williams is a writer-historian who writes about history through the stories of the people who lived it. He is a former journalist and has written for The Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, San Antonio Express-News, and the Associated Press. He is also the author of My Old Confederate Home: A Respectable Place for Civil War Veterans (University Press of Kentucky) and Historic Photographs of Dallas, 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s (Turner).