Steamboat on a Gamble
Named by W.H. McWhorter for a town in his home state of Wisconsin, the Waukesha was one of a half-handful of stern-wheelers that plied...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Feb 19
Long Lost Lafayette
This 1839 postal road map shows Lost Prairie, Lafayette Courthouse, and Conway connected via the Red River in Lafayette County (Miller...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Rare southwestern Arkansas
This hand-drawn map from 1864 appears to have come from the hand of a man named S.T. Risler, who served in Walker's Texas Division during...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 29, 2021
Training School
Two miles south of Blevins (Hempstead County, Arkansas) along the old Blevins to Washington Road, once sat the Blevins Training School, a...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 29, 2021
Old Arkansas Home
In the 1820s, the Blevins family built a primitive, two story home without the use of nails in today's Hempstead County, Arkansas. This...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 28, 2021
Trace of Trammel
In 1838, when the United States and the Republic of Texas surveyed the boundary between the countries along the Index Line (today's...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- May 1, 2018
Ay Chihuahua!
I often spend my evenings (as well as days, weekends, times when I should be grading papers…) perusing old maps. One of my particular...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Feb 5, 2018
Southwestern Trail
One of the oldest roads in the Red River Valley was the Tennessee to Washington (Hempstead County, Arkansas) to Fulton (Hempstead County)...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Aug 8, 2015
An historic Death
In the US, death of history is frequent. I’m not talking about historical events today, even though they have their own share of death...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 2, 2014
An Arkansas Traveler
The old story of the “Arkansas Traveler” tells of a person coming through the backwoods of Arkansas and happening upon a house. The...
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