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Robin Cole-Jett
Dec 1, 2022
The Chicken War
In 1936, the Chicken War of 1719 was inadvertently commemorated.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 5, 2022
Denison Labor Strike of 1922... that couldn't be
On July 1, 1922, the national Union of Railroad Shopmen called for a country-wide strike, and Denison's MKT labor was about to participate.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 5, 2022
Trails blazed by Randolph B. Marcy and Black Beaver in the Red River Valley
Randolph B. Marcy and Black Beaver built trails all along the Red River Valley.
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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 and a Trail of Tears on the Van Dorn Trail
The Van Dorn Trail led to a massacre and subsequently became a Trail of Tears for the Plains Indians.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jul 21, 2022
The Bankhead Highway Convoy through North Texas!
In 1919, the U.S. government authorized a Military Motor Convoy to traverse the Bankhead Highway.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jul 21, 2022
Lost Ark
Little Ark once sat along Hickory Creek in Love County, Oklahoma (1902, USGS) I decided to nose around my favorite maps and find places...
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Robin Cole-Jett
May 15, 2022
Just floating an idea... literally
An aero-trolley at Turner Falls, Oklahoma. This may have been the general idea of the proposed ferry over the Red River. Oklahoma.net In...
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Robin Cole-Jett
May 15, 2022
Success by trial
The Coincoin-Prudhomme house along the Cane River in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana was documented by the Historic Buildings Survey in...
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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 Parker's Long Journey
Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped and adopted into a Comanche family, who renamed her Narua (foundling) in 1836.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jan 12, 2022
Walled in Denison: Stone Ruins off the old Jefferson Highway
Stone ruins near Denison, just a stone's throw from the Old Jefferson Highway, could be related to automobile travel or something else.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Aug 2, 2021
Jack Loftin, a Remarkable Man
Jack Loftin, the remarkable man who wrote, created, and repaired the stone monuments, proved to be a true history machine.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Aug 2, 2021
Doan's Crossing at Doan's Store
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
Aug 2, 2021
Eagletown, Originally a Station on the Choctaw Trail of Tears
Eagletown was settled within a decade of the Louisiana Purchase and was originally a station on the Choctaw Trail of Tears.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Aug 2, 2021
Ghostly Waters
Like Sulphur 40 miles to the west, Bromide (Johnston County, Oklahoma) was a spa town at the turn of the 20th century. Nestled inside...
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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 26, 2021
Mansura mapping
I have never seen Mansura, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, well-represented on any map prior to satellite data. But we can figure out why...
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jul 26, 2021
Longitudinal confusion
The Red River Valley above Fulton/ Clarksville / Fort Towson was not fully mapped until after the Civil War. The first regional mapping...
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