Northwest Louisiana is part of the East Texas hill country geologically. My ancestors on that side of the family started out in northern Alabama during the American Civil War, got burned out as giant armies trod back and forth over their farm, and decided to move west to Texas. Their wagon broke down in Northwest Louisiana on the way to Texas, they looked around, and said “We’re home.” And stayed there for the next 140 years. My great-great grandfather was a teenager at the end of the Civil War, and died in 1947 after WW2. What a life. That was some history he saw…
