Around 1821, Spanish Texas became Mexican Texas.

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

I freakin' found the cells of Denton County's old jail in a Texas field full of brambles!

The Farmers Improvement College near Ladonia, Fannin County, Texas was designed for agricultural and domestic training.

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

A feature map of Cooke County, Texas, reveals the Brushy Mound community, also known as Brushy Mountain (Texas General Land Office). The...

Warren was once the seat of Fannin County, Texas

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

The Douglass Separate School in Roosevelt, Oklahoma.

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

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...

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

Fort Towson in today’s Choctaw County, was established in 1824.

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

Nathan Banks, Union general, left a relic of the Red River Campaign at Bailey's Dam in Alexandria, Louisiana.

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

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

Three major Native American tribes called the Red River Valley of the Southwest home long before Europeans staked their claims. The...

In the US, death of history is frequent. I’m not talking about historical events today, even though they have their own share of death...