Scarlett Meadows is a constituent region of north and west Louisiana, and it was composed of gentle hills, ponds, plains, and swampland during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Scarlett Meadows - named for its red earth covers the parishes of Louisiana west of the Ouachita River and the "boot" of the state in the parishes of Caddo, Bossier, Claiborne, Union, DeSoto, Red River, Bienville, Jackson, Sabine, Natchitoches, Winn, Grant, LaSalle, Vernon, Rapides, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Allen, Evangeline, St. Landry, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Acadia, Lafayette, St. Martin, Iberia, Vermilion, and Cameron and the eastern halves of Ouachita, Caldwell, Catahoula, and Concordia Parishes. Located east of the Flat Iron Lake and the border with Texas, it was once a prosperous region during the Old South, as it was home to several plantations and the booming towns of Rhodes and Pleasance. Following the war, the loss of slave labor caused the locals to fall on hard times, causing a bloody rivalry between the Gray family and Braithwaite family. The neo-Confederate Louisiana Raiders engaged in banditry in the region into the 1900s, although their rivalry with Dutch van der Linde's gang in 1899 and a crackdown by law enforcement forced them to relocate to Texas.
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