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 depot from Sanger (Denton County, Texas) was moved to Tioga (Grayson County) and now has a second life as an antique store. Drove to...

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

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.

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...

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...

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

According to the National Register, De Soto Parish, which lies between the Red and Sabine rivers in northwestern Louisiana, contains the...

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

Detroit, Texas was home to Cactus Jack aka John Nance Garner, Vice President to Franklin Roosevelt form 1933 to 1941.

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,...