Along a county road in Jackson County, Oklahoma, lies the lonesome grave of Joel Moseley, 1846-1890. Mr. Moseley was born in Georgia and, at one point, made his way to Texas. He died when Jackson County (organized in 1907) was still part of Greer County, Texas until the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the land between the North Fork and the Prairie Dog Fork of the Red River belonged to Oklahoma Territory. Mr. Moseley may have died on a cattle drive (if it was a long distance

I turned yet another year older this month (just a decade past 29), and, like I do every birthday, I did some soul searching. I’m re-visiting Bromide (in my head & for real) because I recently came in contact with a Chickasaw Elder who is providing me with all sorts of information. If I didn’t follow my passions, I would have never known him or learned so much. My soul apparently has ADHD, because my mind tends to wander when I genuflect. It meanders towards places I’ve been,