S.A. Bolton explained living in a dugout in Harmon County, Oklahoma Territory to a WPA worker during the Great Depression.

Built about 1830, the Washington Tavern served as a stage coach station as well as the nearest American boarding house to Mexican Texas.

Basin Springs, Steedman aka Hagerman, and Cedar Mills and were drowned by Lake Texoma.

I was pleasantly surprised to recognize that the Jefferson to Shreveport Waterway still exists as Twelve Mile Bayou.

Marion Post (later, Marion Post Wolcott) was the first photographer to document the Cane River Creole culture of Louisiana.

The life of Polly Ann Colbert, a Chickasaw Free Woman, is a history lesson of Indian Territory.

A "National Recreation Area" that was once named after a senator from Connecticut.

The western valley especially testified to this internal refugee crisis.

n 1940, photographer Marion Wolcott of the Works Progress Administration visited Natchitoches, Louisiana along the Cane River.

The Resettlement Administration was defunded when sharecroppers tenant farms were added to the program.

To prevent shifty salesmen, the city of Shreveport erected an orderly Farmers Market.

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

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

Alvin Reeves, a Great War soldier, is buried in the segregated portion of Gates Hill Cemetery in Bonham, Texas.

Lucinda Davis, a person enslaved by the Creeks and a resident of former Indian Territory, was interviewed and photographed by the Federal...

The Douglass Separate School in Roosevelt, Oklahoma.

There is nothing nicer than finding that a WPA built stadium is still in use, like the sturdy, stone arena in Hugo, Choctaw County,...

Detroit, Texas was home to Cactus Jack aka John Nance Garner, Vice President to Franklin Roosevelt form 1933 to 1941.