Fort Phantom Hill centered a small town of the same name in the 1880s, where the main source of income derived from buffalo slaughter.

Fort Arbuckle was founded by Randolph B. Marcy in 1851 as a Chickasaw Nation garrison.

A 1721 map places the Yattassee village (spelled Yatachez) on the eastern side of the Red River.

The old Boston Jail in New Boston, not to be confused with the original (Texas) Boston.

By the late 1830s, Boggy Depot centered the Choctaw/ Chickasaw Nation.

Spanish Fort in Montague County, Texas was originally a Taovayan village that spanned the Red River.

Preston was founded by Holland Coffee, and yes, that was his real name.

Gloster became a functioning place only after the Texas & Pacific trains came through

The Natchez settlement that was destroyed by French troops and Choctaw, Houma, and Tunica allies in the early 1730s.

I became good friends with some curious cows as I visited the remains of the former Fairview School, Greer County, Oklahoma.

Wardville, Oklahoma is a ghost town but don't call it that.

Colony, Washita County, Oklahoma was home to Seeger Indian Industrial School and the Dutch Reformed Church mission.

Colbert's hotel stood above his ferry, which once was replaced by a bridge in 1875 that the Red River promptly washed away.

Bradley's Corner was a "collection of tents, shacks and oil field shops" in the Northwest Extension Field.

Little Ark once sat along Hickory Creek in Love County, Oklahoma (1902, USGS) I decided to nose around my favorite maps and find places...

Stone ruins near Denison, just a stone's throw from the Old Jefferson Highway, could be related to automobile travel or something else.

If you counted yourself among the fashionable pioneer set, a MUST-DO was to cross into Indian Territory by way of the Doan's Store.

Since 1880s at least, and most likely at least two decades prior, the corner of State/ East Fourth/ Sam Rayburn and North Chestnut...

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

In the 1820s, the Blevins family built a primitive, two story cabin without the use of nails in today's Hempstead County, Arkansas.