Jim Turner lost its steam
A reader sent me an email about a steamboat wreck he couldn't remember the name of. I know of a few, and the one he was looking for was...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Ward the Ville
The bank at Wardville where, in 1914, two men robbed it of currency and silver. Wardville, Atoka County, Oklahoma sits off the Jefferson...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Colony Mission
The remains of the dormitory. Colony, a little hamlet in Washita County, Oklahoma, began a long time ago as a Caddoan settlement. Then,...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
An early Bridge
A different view of Colbert's Hotel and Stage stand, as seen by a sketch artist for the Handbook of North Texas, published in 1886....
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Bad Bill
Bill Dalton of the infamous "Dalton Gang" was born in Missouri in 1865 and died near Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma in 1894. How'd that...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 5, 2022
Marcy and Black Beaver
Randolph B. Marcy, a West Point graduate and U.S. army captain/lieutenant from Pennsylvania, served much of his pre-Civil War career in...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jul 21, 2022
Lost Ark
Little Ark once sat along Hickory Creek in Love County, Oklahoma (1902, USGS) I decided to nose around my favorite maps and find places...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- May 15, 2022
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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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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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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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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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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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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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 29, 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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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 29, 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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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 29, 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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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 29, 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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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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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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