Thousand-Word Photograph: Texans Squatting in Indian Territory
The Chickasaws witnessed a land and genealogical invasion by Texans in the early 20th century.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jun 21, 2023
Fort Sauvage, the Natchez Village after the Fort Rosalie Massacre
The Natchez settlement that was destroyed by French troops and Choctaw, Houma, and Tunica allies in the early 1730s.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jan 31, 2023
Colony Mission: Seeger Indian School in Washita County, Oklahoma
Colony, Washita County, Oklahoma was home to Seeger Indian Industrial School and the Dutch Reformed Church mission.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jan 31, 2023
Colbert's Bridge, Hotel, and Ferry at the Red River
Colbert's hotel stood above his ferry, which once was replaced by a bridge in 1875 that the Red River promptly washed away.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jan 31, 2023
De Mézières writing Smack about Natchitoches after Taovaya
After his 1772 visit to Taovaya at the Red River, Athanase De Mézières preferred the villages over Natchitoches.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 5, 2022
Trails blazed by Randolph B. Marcy and Black Beaver in the Red River Valley
Randolph B. Marcy and Black Beaver built trails all along the Red River Valley.
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Wilhelmina Heloise
Aug 1, 2022
Fur Trade in the Red River Valley
A description of the fur trade in Louisiana during the French colonial era.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jul 21, 2022
Massacre and a Trail of Tears on the Van Dorn Trail
The Van Dorn Trail led to a massacre and subsequently became a Trail of Tears for the Plains Indians.
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Robin Cole-Jett
May 15, 2022
Cynthia Ann Parker's Long Journey
Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped and adopted into a Comanche family, who renamed her Narua (foundling) in 1836.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Aug 2, 2021
Eagletown, Originally a Station on the Choctaw Trail of Tears
Eagletown was settled within a decade of the Louisiana Purchase and was originally a station on the Choctaw Trail of Tears.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jul 11, 2021
Kiowa Calendar
The Oklahoma Historical Society has an unbelievable amount of photographs that only occasionally see the light of day. Their photos,...
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jul 6, 2021
Whole 'nother county
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...
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jul 6, 2021
Disappearing Fort Griffin!
Founded in 1867, Fort Griffin (Shackleford County, Texas) is now a state historic site.
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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
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
Jul 12, 2018
Fort Towson Remains
Fort Towson in today’s Choctaw County, was established in 1824.
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