This wire sent from Denison in April of 1873 reported an Indian raid that never happened. This article was cited widely in multiple...

Warren was once the seat of Fannin County, Texas

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...

Drove to Henrietta, Clay County, Texas the other day to take some photos and came across this utilitarian, brick structure behind an...

Reader Ben Jones graciously shared a vantage point of the Red River that’s rarely seen nowadays – Spanish Bluff on the southern bank of...

Sibley (1757-1837) is buried in the American Cemetery in Natchitoches, Louisiana. John Sibley was the first Indian Agent in the Louisiana...

The northern portion of John Pope’s 1854 map to survey a possible transcontinental route through Texas marks the Cross Timbers between...

The Chisholm Trail was known as the Abilene Cattle Trail on maps, but what about those who used the trail?

I visited Buffalo Springs in Clay County (TX), a little ghost town named after a nearby buffalo watering site. Founded around 1864,...

Comanche women in Mow-wi camp at Palo Duro Canyon during the Red River War.

Tombstones, especially military ones, are great ways to trace histrory. And the history from the tombstone needn’t be a family member,...

Check out some Grayson County Rails!

Near Aurora (Wise County, Texas) is this old grocery store. I wonder if the store was witness to the UFO crash landing, which allegedly...

Texas is a big state. It’s also my birthplace and the birthplace of my dad, so of course I feel affinity for it… sometimes. It’s also a...