Josiah Gregg's trading path became the "Gold Road" for German immigrants.

In 1937, George Conrad, a former Buffalo Soldier, was interviewed by the WPA's Federal Writer's Project.

Founded in 1867, Fort Griffin (Shackleford County, Texas) is now a state historic site.

Every Veteran's Day - aka Armistice Day - I like to post about a Great War (WWI) veteran because these men hoped that this was the "war...

Since 1880s at least, and most likely at least two decades prior, the corner of State/ East Fourth/ Sam Rayburn and North Chestnut...

Lake Texoma left archaeology and the towns of Aylesworth and Woodville, among others, beneath its waters.

Sometime in the 1990s, the federal program called Historic Buildings Survey (HABS) documented the Coincoin- Prudhomme home along the Cane...

One settlement along this path that interests me is at the western end of the road on this map - Chichi.

In 1834, George Catlin accompanied the first dragoon expedition, helmed by Generals Henry Dodge and Henry Leavenworth, from Kansas into...

The Blevins Training School was a high school during the era of segregation in Hempstead County, Arkansas.

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.