The bank at Wardville where, in 1914, two men robbed it of currency and silver. Wardville, Atoka County, Oklahoma sits off the Jefferson...

A cowboy from England has his photograph taken at Red River Station in the 1880s (University of Texas, Arlington). Red River Station in...

Bradley's Corner north of Burkburnett, Wichita County, Texas (DeGoyler Library, SMU) The "skyscrapers" on this photograph climbed into...

Little Ark once sat along Hickory Creek in Love County, Oklahoma (1902, USGS) I decided to nose around my favorite maps and find places...

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...

Like Sulphur 40 miles to the west, Bromide (Johnston County, Oklahoma) was a spa town at the turn of the 20th century. Nestled inside...

In 1927, Muriel H. Wright, a teacher and one of Oklahoma's most detailed historians, mapped Boggy Depot (Atoka County, Oklahoma) from...