In the 1820s, the Blevins family built a primitive, two story cabin without the use of nails in today's Hempstead County, Arkansas.

The demise of Tuck's Ferry in Love County, Oklahoma was the outcome of the ferry operator's murder.

Tatums, Carter County, Oklahoma, experienced an oil boom as the home to the first African-American owned oil operation.

In 1838, when the United States and the Republic of Texas surveyed the boundary between the countries along the Index Line (today's...

In August of 1859, surveyors marked the 100th Meridian at the Red River - the line that marks the eastern boundary of the Texas panhandle...

The map by Jean Baptist Franquelin, printed in Paris (France) in 1684, is a facsimile of the original that has been lost. It now resides...

Alvin Reeves, a Great War soldier, is buried in the segregated portion of Gates Hill Cemetery in Bonham, Texas.

An oral history about Dr. Martin Luther King's visit to Shreveport in the 1950s.

According to this map filed by the Houston & Texas Railroad with the Texas General Land Office, their rail line was proposed to extend to...

Muriel Wright documented Boggy Depot well.

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

In the 1890s, these unnamed men from Montague County, Texas posed for a photograph after filing claims against the U.S. government for...

Around 1821, Spanish Texas became Mexican Texas.

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

Oak Hill Industrial School, an academy for Choctaw freedmen, was established in 1869.

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.