The Chisholm Trail was known as the Abilene Cattle Trail on maps, but what about those who used the trail?

Detroit, Texas was home to Cactus Jack aka John Nance Garner, Vice President to Franklin Roosevelt form 1933 to 1941.

(Library of Congress) A geological map of coal claims around Coalgate, Coal County, Indian Territory (Oklahoma) from ca. 1900 shows that...

I often spend my evenings (as well as days, weekends, times when I should be grading papers…) perusing old maps. One of my particular...