Trail station
A cowboy from England has his photograph taken at Red River Station in the 1880s (University of Texas, Arlington). Red River Station in...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Learn that business
A 1908 ad inside the Draughons Business College catalog demonstrates that people who do not attend will have pick axes lodged in their...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Colony Mission
The remains of the dormitory. Colony, a little hamlet in Washita County, Oklahoma, began a long time ago as a Caddoan settlement. Then,...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Bad Bill
Bill Dalton of the infamous "Dalton Gang" was born in Missouri in 1865 and died near Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma in 1894. How'd that...
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Wilhelmina Heloise
- Aug 1, 2022
Fur Trade in the Red River Valley
A description of the fur trade in Louisiana during the French colonial era.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jul 21, 2022
Massacre at Wichita Village
The "Historical Map of Clay County" by the Slagle Abstract Company shows an Old Cattle Trail meeting at the Little Washita in Clay...
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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
- May 15, 2022
Going the distance
The published account of the 28th Congressional Session in 1843 included a number of maps and drawings. These visuals helped to...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- May 15, 2022
Cynthia Ann's long journey
Cynthia Ann Parker's body is reburied at the Post Oak Mission's cemetery near Indiahoma in Comanche, Oklahoma in 1910. Her son, Quanah...
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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
- Aug 2, 2021
Crossing at Doan's
If you counted yourself among the fashionable pioneer set, a MUST-DO was to cross into Indian Territory by way of the Doan's Store....
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Aug 2, 2021
Milling around Eliasville
One of the easiest ways to spot a ghost town is to follow abandoned railroad lines. When the companies were building their right-of-ways...
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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
Kiowa Calendar
The Oklahoma Historical Society has an unbelievable amount of photographs that only occasionally see the light of day. Their photos,...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jul 6, 2021
Whole 'nother county
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...
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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
- 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
- May 10, 2020
Camp no longer
Map of the Comanche and Apache nation in Oklahoma Territory in 1889, noting the location of “Old Camp Augur” on the Red River. Camp Augur...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Oct 15, 2019
Map that textbook
A sketch of a map drawn for a textbook yields some interesting information. Here’s a mid-19th century, hand-drawn map of the Indian...
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