San Calixto in the Wichita Mountains - the Sierra Jumanos - was probably the base for gold prospecting after it failed as a mission in 1629.

A "National Recreation Area" that was once named after a senator from Connecticut.

A Rare Map of Oklahoma from 1892 shows towns, trails, districts, counties, and more.

The Blue River WMA is a hiker's and fisher's paradise.

Annotated editorial from the Chicago Tribune to provide some context about slavery in the Choctaw Nation.

The toll bridge at Colbert was the site of the Red River Bridge "war."

The relationship between Gainesville, Texas and Indian Territory as explained by the Chickasaw Hotel.

The Chickasaws witnessed a land and genealogical invasion by Texans in the early 20th century.

I became good friends with some curious cows as I visited the remains of the former Fairview School, Greer County, Oklahoma.

Jim Turner, a steam boat, sunk at Albion on the Red River in 1854.

Wardville, Oklahoma is a ghost town but don't call it that.

Colony, Washita County, Oklahoma was home to Seeger Indian Industrial School and the Dutch Reformed Church mission.

Colbert's hotel stood above his ferry, which once was replaced by a bridge in 1875 that the Red River promptly washed away.

Bill Dalton of the infamous "Dalton Gang" was born in Missouri in 1865 and died near Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma in 1894.

Randolph B. Marcy and Black Beaver built trails all along the Red River Valley.

The Van Dorn Trail led to a massacre and subsequently became a Trail of Tears for the Plains Indians.

Little Ark once sat along Hickory Creek in Love County, Oklahoma (1902, USGS) I decided to nose around my favorite maps and find places...

Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped and adopted into a Comanche family, who renamed her Narua (foundling) in 1836.

Eagletown was settled within a decade of the Louisiana Purchase and was originally a station on the Choctaw Trail of Tears.

Like Sulphur 40 miles to the west, Bromide (Johnston County, Oklahoma) was a spa town at the turn of the 20th century. Nestled inside...