Robin Cole-JettMay 15Cynthia Ann's long journeyCynthia Ann Parker's body is reburied at the Post Oak Mission's cemetery near Indiahoma in Comanche, Oklahoma in 1910. Her son, Quanah...
Robin Cole-JettAug 2, 2021Original Choctaw TownEagletown (McCurtain County, Oklahoma) began its existence within a decade after the Louisiana Purchase. American settlers, seeking new...
Robin Cole-JettAug 2, 2021Ghostly WatersLike Sulphur 40 miles to the west, Bromide (Johnston County, Oklahoma) was a spa town at the turn of the 20th century. Nestled inside...
Robin Cole-JettJul 6, 2021Whole 'nother countyTexas likes that it's big, and between 1860 and 1894, it was actually a million and a half acres larger than it is today. That's because...
Robin Cole-JettJul 6, 2021George Conrad, Buffalo SoldierIn 1937, George Conrad, Jr. was interviewed by the WPA's Federal Writer's Project. Born in slavery on February 23, 1860 at Connversville,...
Robin Cole-JettJul 6, 2021Gerty VeteranEvery 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...
Robin Cole-JettJun 30, 2021Denison DAM!When Sam Rayburn, U.S. Speaker of the House from Bonham (Fannin County, Texas), proposed the flood control project for the Red River at...
Robin Cole-JettJun 30, 2021Battlin' CatlinIn 1834, George Catlin accompanied the first dragoon expedition, helmed by Generals Henry Dodge and Henry Leavenworth, from Kansas into...
Robin Cole-JettJun 30, 2021Murder MysteryI was looking around at some former ferry sites along the Red River and saw Thompson's Ferry at Horseshoe Bend in Love County, Oklahoma...
Robin Cole-JettJun 30, 2021Tatums OilTatums (Carter County, Oklahoma) is one of the few 'all black towns' still extant in Oklahoma. It shared its location at Wildhorse Creek...
Robin Cole-JettJun 28, 2021Muriel and BoggyIn 1927, Muriel H. Wright, a teacher and one of Oklahoma's most detailed historians, mapped Boggy Depot (Atoka County, Oklahoma) from...
Robin Cole-JettJun 28, 2021Lone GraveAlong a county road in Jackson County, Oklahoma, lies the lonesome grave of Joel Moseley, 1846-1890. Mr. Moseley was born in Georgia and,...