Besides the calaboose, there's not much else in Devol to explain the town's former industriousness.

The only available photographic documentation of an execution carried out by the Choctaw Nation's Lighthorsemen.

Mudgett aka Holmes aka Lyman aka Pratt, the builder of the Murder Castle in Fort Worth, was executed by hanging in 1896.

The most notorious brothel in Denison was Brown Front, named so because it, well, had an unpainted wooden front that was none too pretty.