Hickory Creek in Denton County, Texas may be named for Hickory, a much older settlement that history has forgotten.

Burneyville's hotel was once a real beauty, but nothing remains of it.

In May 1899. a letter in a Denison newspaper appeared about a "new, thriving, up-to-date town" named Pancanula, Chickasaw Nation.

Red River Station was the fabled crossing for the Abilene Cattle Trail at the Red River in Montague County during the 1870s and 1880s.

What may be the final photo of the ferry at Fulton, Hempstead County, Arkansas which crossed the Red River just below the Great Bend.

By the late 1830s, Boggy Depot centered the Choctaw/ Chickasaw Nation.

Tatums in Carter County, Oklahoma was an all-black town that enjoyed a brief oil boom.

Doaksville in Choctaw County, Oklahoma is now a ghost town but was once a very important place.

Spanish Fort in Montague County, Texas was originally a Taovayan village that spanned the Red River.

Fulton grew up along the Great Bend of the Red River but is no longer growing.

Wardville, Oklahoma is a ghost town but don't call it that.

Red River Station in Montague County, Texas is a ghost of the cattle trail driving past.

Bradley's Corner was a "collection of tents, shacks and oil field shops" in the Northwest Extension Field.

Little Ark once sat along Hickory Creek in Love County, Oklahoma (1902, USGS) I decided to nose around my favorite maps and find places...

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...

Like Sulphur 40 miles to the west, Bromide (Johnston County, Oklahoma) was a spa town at the turn of the 20th century. Nestled inside...

Tatums, Carter County, Oklahoma, experienced an oil boom as the home to the first African-American owned oil operation.

Muriel Wright documented Boggy Depot well.

There was always a mystery to me surrounding a name of a street in Eagletown, Oklahoma – Mad Man Road.

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