Eagletown was settled within a decade of the Louisiana Purchase and was originally a station on the Choctaw Trail of Tears.

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

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...

In 1937, George Conrad, a former Buffalo Soldier, was interviewed by the WPA's Federal Writer's Project.

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...

Lake Texoma left archaeology and the towns of Aylesworth and Woodville, among others, beneath its waters.

In 1834, George Catlin accompanied the first dragoon expedition, helmed by Generals Henry Dodge and Henry Leavenworth, from Kansas into...

The demise of Tuck's Ferry in Love County, Oklahoma was the outcome of the ferry operator's murder.

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.

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

Camp Augur in today’s Tillman County, Oklahoma was founded in 1871 to protect the tribes impacted by the Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867.

The Willis Cemetery sits just off US 377 north of Lake Texoma in Marshall County, Oklahoma.

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

The Douglass Separate School in Roosevelt, Oklahoma.

Fort Towson in today’s Choctaw County, was established in 1824.

The Chisholm Trail was known as the Abilene Cattle Trail on maps, but what about those who used the trail?

A geological map of coal claims in the "Coal Country" around Coalgate, Coal County, Indian Territory (Oklahoma) from ca. 1900.

The Red River Valley of the South still contains the remnants of segregation inside many of its cemeteries.