Olmsted and the Gaines Ferry
In a description of his travels to Texas, Olmsted and his party pushed on to Gaines Ferry on the Sabine River.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 22, 2023
The Great Hanging of Gainesville in the Newspapers
Newspaper articles report on the same event: the Great Hanging in Gainesville, as well as other murders that took place in North Texas
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 22, 2023
North Texas in the Civil War
While its neighbors suffered in stopping the Union armies from entering, North Texas itself left the Civil War relatively unscathed.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 22, 2023
Top o' Hill Terrace
Top o' Hill Terrace was one the biggest gambling halls, bordellos, and speakeasies in the Southwest.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 22, 2023
The Brown Front Brothel in Denison
The most notorious brothel in Denison was Brown Front, named so because it, well, had an unpainted wooden front that was none too pretty.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 22, 2023
What was once Hell's Half Acre in Fort Worth
The courthouse once left an imposing impression on those plying their trades in old Hell's Half Acre, Fort Worth's red light district.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 22, 2023
Dallas Vice: Boggy Bayou, Deep Ellum, the Reservation, West Dallas, and Commerce Street
Dallas boasted several vice districts: Boggy Bayou, Deep Ellum, the Reservation, West Dallas, and Commerce Street.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 20, 2023
A Not-Always Fair Park in Dallas
Most of the buildings that lie inside Fair Park in Dallas today are landmarks built purposefully for the 1936 Centennial Exposition.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 19, 2023
Sand Branch, or Simonds Precinct Cemetery, in Dallas County
The Simonds Precinct cemetery is known called to its families as "Sand Branch."
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 19, 2023
D-Day Death in Cooke County
Sgt. Roy Speake died early in the morning on D-Day, June 6, 1944 during the invasion of Normandy, and is now buried in Cooke County, Texas.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 19, 2023
The Old Paris Cemeteries
Paris, Texas has several inactive, old cemeteries within its city limits.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 18, 2023
Jerry Chinner, Brick-er
Much of the brick used in building Bonham (Fannin County, Texas) was fired in the kilns owned by Jerry Chinner, a Freeman.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 18, 2023
Denison, Railroad City
The MKT made Denison a very important railroad city after the Civil War.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 17, 2023
Fort Richardson, the Red River War Fort
More than any other fort at or near the Red River Valley, Fort Richardson embodies American Indian reservation policy.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 17, 2023
Fort Griffin, "Civilized"
Fort Griffin marked the boundary line ("the frontier") between Native American lands and white settlement ("civilization").
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 17, 2023
Waterless and Bisonless Fort Phantom Hill
Fort Phantom Hill centered a small town of the same name in the 1880s, where the main source of income derived from buffalo slaughter.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 17, 2023
Very Busy Fort Belknap
Fort Belknap became an important trading hub for Anglo settlement into the Comanceria.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 17, 2023
Marcy's Expedition to document the the Red River
Randolph B. Marcy, who knew Texas and Indian Territory well, was tasked to lead an expedition to document the Red River in 1852.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 16, 2023
Machine Gun Kelley, the Kidnapper
Infamous bandit Machine Gun Kelley is buried here inside his wife Kathryn's family's plot in Wise County, Texas.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 16, 2023
Province Texas Map by Stephen F. Austin
Stephen F. Austin traced a Mexican map of the Province of Texas from 1818 and painted it with water colors.
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