ALEXANDRIA, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A more than two-hundred-year-old tale about a circuit-riding preacher named John Shrock proves that some Americans in the Red River Valley during the early 1800s had the ...

A circuit-riding preacher from Clintonville risked it all to help out escaped slaves. The Underground Railroad was a secret system that helped escaped slaves find freedom in the North, and the dangers ...

In looking through reams of collectibles, I re-discovered something I’d been asked to read in 1984 at Homestead United Methodist Church as part of their bicentennial celebration. Enter the life story ...

But Boyd had clearly come the farthest — from Benton, Kan. — and traveled the slowest — on horseback — while fulfilling his mission as the “Last Circuit Riding Preacher.” “I’ve always wanted to ride ...

A two-year plan to travel as a circuit-riding preacher has turned into a longer journey, but for Dan Boyd it’s all part of a larger plan. Dubbing himself “the last circuit riding preacher,” Boyd was ...

I love an old story that circulates in my family about my great-great grandfather, a fiery circuit-riding preacher named John Martin McBrayer. “The Reverend,” or just “Preacher,” as he was known, ...

Dan Boyd has spent the last two years as a circuit-riding preacher, traveling through 26 states. He plans to continue until he has traveled to all Lower 48 states. Record photo by Kerri Rempp Prefer ...