Robin Cole-Jett6 days agoMountain Park, Oklahoma... Coulda BeenA new Oklahoma county named Swanson would boast Mountain Park as its temporary county seat in 1910-1911.
Robin Cole-JettNov 27Red River, Shifty RiverThe Red River is a shifty river, but that's not meant as an insult.
Robin Cole-JettNov 26Rainy Mountain Indian School for the Kiowa and Apache TribesFrom 1893 to 1920, Rainy Mountain Indian School "Americanized" children from the Kiowa and Apache tribes, and now lies as an unmarked ruin.
Robin Cole-JettNov 10Crockett Hotel in Bonham, TexasSanborn Maps from the 1880s tell me that the burning building was the Crockett Hotel in Bonham, Texas.
Robin Cole-JettNov 1Wegefarth County, no more and never much wasWegefarth County was platted and promoted in 1873 to white homesteaders to push out native people.