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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
Humble historic home
Sometime in the 1990s, the federal program called Historic Buildings Survey (HABS) documented the Coincoin- Prudhomme home along the Cane...
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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 28, 2021
Muriel Wright and Boggy Depot
Muriel Wright documented Boggy Depot well.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jun 28, 2021
Depredations
In the 1890s, these unnamed men from Montague County, Texas posed for a photograph after filing claims against the U.S. government for...
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jun 9, 2020
False raid
This wire sent from Denison in April of 1873 reported an Indian raid that never happened. This article was cited widely in multiple...
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jun 9, 2020
Oak Hill Industrial School, an Academy for Choctaw Freedmen
Oak Hill Industrial School, an academy for Choctaw freedmen, was established in 1869.
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Robin Cole-Jett
May 10, 2020
Camp Augur No Longer
Camp Augur in today’s Tillman County, Oklahoma was founded in 1871 to protect the tribes impacted by the Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Oct 15, 2019
Map that textbook
A sketch of a map drawn for a textbook yields some interesting information. Here’s a mid-19th century, hand-drawn map of the Indian...
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Robin Cole-Jett
Nov 4, 2018
Slices of Sibley
Sibley (1757-1837) is buried in the American Cemetery in Natchitoches, Louisiana. John Sibley was the first Indian Agent in the Louisiana...
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jun 28, 2018
Fun with maps
French map from 1754 (Library of Congress) Did you know that the now- states of Arkansas and Louisiana once bordered Georgia, North, and...
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Robin Cole-Jett
Feb 19, 2018
End of the Red River War: Comanche Women at Mow-wi Camp in Palo Duro Canyon
Comanche women in Mow-wi camp at Palo Duro Canyon during the Red River War.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Feb 3, 2018
Depredations
In the 1890s, these unnamed men from Montague County, Texas posed for a photograph after filing claims against the U.S. government for...
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jan 17, 2018
Caddos along the Red River Valley
Three major Native American tribes called the Red River Valley of the Southwest home long before Europeans staked their claims. The...
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jan 25, 2016
A complaint about access
Indulge me for a moment while I vent a consistent frustration of mine… and probably one experienced by historians (professional and lay...
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jun 17, 2012
Who’s the Enemy?
For the past few weeks, I’ve been reading S.C. Gwynne’s Empire of the Southern Moon, a bestseller that traces the history of the...
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