Camp Howze
Opened in 1942 just northwest of Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas, Camp Howze's purpose was to train infantry for activation during World...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 5, 2022
Denison labor
Camp for National Guardsmen, called to Denison, Texas to quell potential violence during a railroad shopmen strike, at Forest Park near...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jul 21, 2022
On the road
The Bankhead Highway was easily navigable through Dallas, Fort Worth, and out west, as it was paved with Thurber bricks. (Hardin Simmons...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Aug 2, 2021
A remarkable man
One bright, sunny, and very hot day, I traversed the Texas portion of US 82 into Archer County from Wichita County, on my way to some...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jul 26, 2021
Map for mathematicians
Map fro the 28th Congressional Session, 1848, of distances between federal outposts in the American Southwest (LOC). The published...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jul 11, 2021
Jefferson devolution
Jefferson, the county seat of Marion County, Texas, became an inland port after the first federal Red River raft (massive log jam)...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 28, 2021
Muriel and Boggy
In 1927, Muriel H. Wright, a teacher and one of Oklahoma's most detailed historians, mapped Boggy Depot (Atoka County, Oklahoma) from...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 28, 2021
Depredations
In the 1890s, these unnamed men from Montague County, Texas posed for a photograph after filing claims against the U.S. government for...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 9, 2020
False raid
This wire sent from Denison in April of 1873 reported an Indian raid that never happened. This article was cited widely in multiple...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Oct 13, 2019
Mad Man Road
Eagletown’s downtown, McCurtain County, Oklahoma. Eagletown may be the oldest town in the southeastern part of the state. It may not look...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 16, 2019
Roosevelt schoolin’
The well-built little school in Roosevelt, built by the Works Progress Administration, had two entrances – one for girls, and one for...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Mar 12, 2019
Fancy digs, once
The Grand Central Hotel (first class, no less!) in Terral, Jefferson County, Oklahoma was an imposing building at the turn of the century...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Feb 17, 2019
An international boundary in the middle of nowhere
Just north of Logansport, Louisiana, along FM 31 in Panola County, Texas and CR 765 in De Soto Parish , sits one of the more interesting...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 27, 2019
Where crime did not pay in Henrietta
Drove to Henrietta, Clay County, Texas the other day to take some photos and came across this utilitarian, brick structure behind an...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Nov 13, 2018
Spanish Bluff
Reader Ben Jones graciously shared a vantage point of the Red River that’s rarely seen nowadays – Spanish Bluff on the southern bank of...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 20, 2018
An Embarrassment of Architectural Treasures in De Soto Parish
According to the National Register, De Soto Parish, which lies between the Red and Sabine rivers in northwestern Louisiana, contains the...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jul 12, 2018
Fort Towson remains
Grant Foreman, one of Oklahoma’s first historians, appears in this photograph overlooking the ruins of Fort Towson in 1900. Although Fort...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- May 14, 2018
Coal Country
(Library of Congress) A geological map of coal claims around Coalgate, Coal County, Indian Territory (Oklahoma) from ca. 1900 shows that...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Apr 25, 2018
Your mom may have gone to this college, Napoleon.
From 1841 to 1868, McKenzie Institute (also called McKenzie College) was the pride of Clarksville, Red River County, Texas. Until the end...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Apr 20, 2018
Dallas founding document
I was snooping around the online archives of the Texas General Land Office and found this document. It’s for John Neely Bryan, the...
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