An oral history about Dr. Martin Luther King's visit to Shreveport in the 1950s.

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.

I freakin' found the cells of Denton County's old jail in a Texas field full of brambles!

The Farmers Improvement College near Ladonia, Fannin County, Texas was designed for agricultural and domestic training.

A feature map of Cooke County, Texas, reveals the Brushy Mound community, also known as Brushy Mountain (Texas General Land Office). The...

According to the National Register, De Soto Parish, which lies between the Red and Sabine rivers in northwestern Louisiana, contains the...

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

I visited Buffalo Springs in Clay County (TX), a little ghost town named after a nearby buffalo watering site. Founded around 1864,...

The cobble stones, also called “cannonballs,” used in the structures (pictured below) constitute good examples of Indigenous architecture...

Boggy Depot Plan numbers Depot Muriel Wright 1927 1. Gov. Allen Wright’s residence. 2. John. Kingsbury residence. 3. House built by Mr....

Indulge me for a moment while I vent a consistent frustration of mine… and probably one experienced by historians (professional and lay...

I took up a new hobby last year – estate sale shopping. Like my “hobby” of ghost town collecting, this new pastime does not require...

In the US, death of history is frequent. I’m not talking about historical events today, even though they have their own share of death...

Most antebellum towns west of the Mississippi River did not survive the railroad boom and became ghosts.

Lots of the pictures I post on my website, www.redriverhistorian.com, tend to be of ruins – disused buildings and such – and sometimes,...

Google Maps have been my constant companion since they were introduced back in the stone ages (okay, a few years ago). I can’t believe I...

Every time I give a presentation on ghost towns, invariably I’m asked this question: “What exactly is a Ghost Town? And why are you...

My family hails from the South… I mean from way back. They came from the slums of Middlesex, London, and after a generation in Ireland,...