The Great Western Cattle Trail
The Great Western Trail was the last great northern cattle trail.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 4
The Shawnee Cattle Trail
The Shawnee Trail is also known as Preston Road or Texas Trail or Military Road or Emigrant Trail.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 4
End of the Trail: The Trail of Tears for the Choctaws
The Trail of Tears for the Choctaws ended at a little place called Ultima Thule, and the beginning of their new home was Eagletown.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 3
Brown Springs in Love County, Oklahoma
Brown's Spring in Love County, Oklahoma is a natural spring about 200 yards from the Red River.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 2
The Wichitas, Natives of the Cross Timbers
The Wichitas were the people of the Cross Timbers.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Aug 31
Wreck in the Red River
A wreck in the Red River is an archeological site.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Aug 31
Boggy Depot
By the late 1830s, Boggy Depot centered the Choctaw/ Chickasaw Nation.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Aug 31
Doaksville, Choctaw County, Oklahoma
Doaksville in Choctaw County, Oklahoma is now a ghost town but was once a very important place.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Aug 15
Union Strategy in Indian Territory, Annotated
Annotated editorial from the Chicago Tribune to provide some context about slavery in the Choctaw Nation.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jul 23
Gainesville's Chickasaw Hotel
The relationship between Gainesville, Texas and Indian Territory as explained by the Chickasaw Hotel.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jul 9
Thousand-Word Photograph: Texans Squatting in Indian Territory
The Chickasaws witnessed a land and genealogical invasion by Texans in the early 20th century.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Colony Mission: Seeger Indian School in Washita County, Oklahoma
Colony, Washita County, Oklahoma was home to Seeger Indian Industrial School and the Dutch Reformed Church mission.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Colbert's Bridge, Hotel, and Ferry at the Red River
Colbert's hotel stood above his ferry, which once was replaced by a bridge in 1875 that the Red River promptly washed away.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Bad Bill Dalton, dead in Ardmore
Bill Dalton of the infamous "Dalton Gang" was born in Missouri in 1865 and died near Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma in 1894.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jul 21, 2022
Massacre and a Trail of Tears on the Van Dorn Trail
The Van Dorn Trail led to a massacre and subsequently became a Trail of Tears for the Plains Indians.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- May 15, 2022
Cynthia Ann Parker's Long Journey
Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped and adopted into a Comanche family, who renamed her Narua (foundling) in 1836.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Aug 2, 2021
Eagletown, Originally a Station on the Choctaw Trail of Tears
Eagletown was settled within a decade of the Louisiana Purchase and was originally a station on the Choctaw Trail of Tears.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 29, 2021
Tatums Oil Boom
Tatums, Carter County, Oklahoma, experienced an oil boom as the home to the first African-American owned oil operation.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 28, 2021
Muriel Wright and Boggy Depot
Muriel Wright documented Boggy Depot well.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- May 10, 2020
Camp Augur No Longer
Camp Augur in today’s Tillman County, Oklahoma was founded in 1871 to protect the tribes impacted by the Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867.
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