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

Inside the old cemeteries where American dead reside, nature is taking back what was culled from her. A tree eats a decorative iron fence...

I found a couple of 1872 sketches of the “Red River” by Alfred Rudolph Waud. Waud was an English illustrator who worked in the last half...

Reader Ben Jones graciously shared a vantage point of the Red River that’s rarely seen nowadays – Spanish Bluff on the southern bank of...

French map from 1754 (Library of Congress) Did you know that the now- states of Arkansas and Louisiana once bordered Georgia, North, and...

The Chisholm Trail was known as the Abilene Cattle Trail on maps, but what about those who used the trail?

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

Check out some Grayson County Rails!

Along a county road in Jackson County, Oklahoma, lies the lonesome grave of Joel Moseley, 1846-1890. Mr. Moseley was born in Georgia and,...

When you take into the account the vast volumes of literature that American historians have produced over the last two centuries, what...

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...

I am usually on-the-go on weekends, but this Saturday found me in a somber kind of mood. While I’ve been enjoying the mild winter and am...