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    Cynthia Ann's long journey
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • May 15

    Cynthia Ann's long journey

    Cynthia Ann Parker's body is reburied at the Post Oak Mission's cemetery near Indiahoma in Comanche, Oklahoma in 1910. Her son, Quanah...
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    Original Choctaw Town
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Aug 2, 2021

    Original Choctaw Town

    Eagletown (McCurtain County, Oklahoma) began its existence within a decade after the Louisiana Purchase. American settlers, seeking new...
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    Ghostly Waters
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Aug 2, 2021

    Ghostly Waters

    Like Sulphur 40 miles to the west, Bromide (Johnston County, Oklahoma) was a spa town at the turn of the 20th century. Nestled inside...
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    Whole 'nother county
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Jul 6, 2021

    Whole 'nother county

    Texas 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...
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    George Conrad, Buffalo Soldier
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Jul 6, 2021

    George Conrad, Buffalo Soldier

    In 1937, George Conrad, Jr. was interviewed by the WPA's Federal Writer's Project. Born in slavery on February 23, 1860 at Connversville,...
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    Gerty Veteran
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Jul 6, 2021

    Gerty Veteran

    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...
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    Denison DAM!
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Jun 30, 2021

    Denison 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...
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    Battlin' Catlin
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Jun 30, 2021

    Battlin' Catlin

    In 1834, George Catlin accompanied the first dragoon expedition, helmed by Generals Henry Dodge and Henry Leavenworth, from Kansas into...
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    Murder Mystery
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Jun 30, 2021

    Murder Mystery

    I was looking around at some former ferry sites along the Red River and saw Thompson's Ferry at Horseshoe Bend in Love County, Oklahoma...
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    Tatums Oil
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Jun 30, 2021

    Tatums Oil

    Tatums (Carter County, Oklahoma) is one of the few 'all black towns' still extant in Oklahoma. It shared its location at Wildhorse Creek...
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    Muriel and Boggy
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Jun 28, 2021

    Muriel and Boggy

    In 1927, Muriel H. Wright, a teacher and one of Oklahoma's most detailed historians, mapped Boggy Depot (Atoka County, Oklahoma) from...
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    Lone Grave
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Jun 28, 2021

    Lone Grave

    Along a county road in Jackson County, Oklahoma, lies the lonesome grave of Joel Moseley, 1846-1890. Mr. Moseley was born in Georgia and,...
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