The Oklahoma Historical Society has an unbelievable amount of photographs that only occasionally see the light of day. Their photos,...

Texas likes that it's big, and between 1860 and 1894, it was actually a million and a half acres larger than it is today. That's because...

In 1937, George Conrad, a former Buffalo Soldier, was interviewed by the WPA's Federal Writer's Project.

Lake Texoma left archaeology and the towns of Aylesworth and Woodville, among others, beneath its waters.

In 1834, George Catlin accompanied the first dragoon expedition, helmed by Generals Henry Dodge and Henry Leavenworth, from Kansas into...

The demise of Tuck's Ferry in Love County, Oklahoma was the outcome of the ferry operator's murder.

Tatums, Carter County, Oklahoma, experienced an oil boom as the home to the first African-American owned oil operation.

Muriel Wright documented Boggy Depot well.

Along a county road in Jackson County, Oklahoma, lies the lonesome grave of Joel Moseley, 1846-1890. Mr. Moseley was born in Georgia and,...

In the 1890s, these unnamed men from Montague County, Texas posed for a photograph after filing claims against the U.S. government for...

Oak Hill Industrial School, an academy for Choctaw freedmen, was established in 1869.

Camp Augur in today’s Tillman County, Oklahoma was founded in 1871 to protect the tribes impacted by the Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867.

The Willis Cemetery sits just off US 377 north of Lake Texoma in Marshall County, Oklahoma.

Inside the old cemeteries where American dead reside, nature is taking back what was culled from her. A tree eats a decorative iron fence...

Lucinda Davis, a person enslaved by the Creeks and a resident of former Indian Territory, was interviewed and photographed by the Federal...

There was always a mystery to me surrounding a name of a street in Eagletown, Oklahoma – Mad Man Road.

The Douglass Separate School in Roosevelt, Oklahoma.

There is nothing nicer than finding that a WPA built stadium is still in use, like the sturdy, stone arena in Hugo, Choctaw County,...

The Grand Central Hotel (first class, no less!) in Terral, Jefferson County, Oklahoma was an imposing building at the turn of the century...

The former elementary school in Humprheys, Jackson County, OK is a bit on the sunny side. Even though Jackson County (Oklahoma) is home...