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

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

Muriel Wright documented Boggy Depot well.

There was always a mystery to me surrounding a name of a street in Eagletown, Oklahoma – Mad Man Road.

Most antebellum towns west of the Mississippi River did not survive the railroad boom and became ghosts.