The published account of the 28th Congressional Session in 1843 included a number of maps and drawings. These visuals helped to...

Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped and adopted into a Comanche family, who renamed her Narua (foundling) in 1836.

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.

One of the easiest ways to spot a ghost town is to follow abandoned railroad lines. When the companies were building their right-of-ways...

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

Map fro the 28th Congressional Session, 1848, of distances between federal outposts in the American Southwest (LOC). The published...

The Oklahoma Historical Society has an unbelievable amount of photographs that only occasionally see the light of day. Their photos,...

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...

Pedro Vial's map of the "Great Spanish Road" began in Natchitoches and passed by homes and ranches of traders/planters

One of the least studied but major trade arteries emanating from the Red River was the so-called "Great Spanish Road."

Josiah Gregg's trading path became the "Gold Road" for German immigrants.

Founded in 1867, Fort Griffin (Shackleford County, Texas) is now a state historic site.

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

In 1838, when the United States and the Republic of Texas surveyed the boundary between the countries along the Index Line (today's...

In the 1890s, these unnamed men from Montague County, Texas posed for a photograph after filing claims against the U.S. government for...

This wire sent from Denison in April of 1873 reported an Indian raid that never happened. This article was cited widely in multiple...

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

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...

I was nosing around the digital collections listed at by the Louisiana State University (Shreveport) libraries and found the Parker map.

The Douglass Separate School in Roosevelt, Oklahoma.