Lake Texoma History (1 - 12 of 12)
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Throughout history, many notable people made their lives in Bryan, Marshall, Cooke, and Grayson Counties, today’s Texomaland. We do not have enough information on some of these historical figures, but we...
by Kendall Davis on 8/29/2024
Most people familiar with Grayson County, Texas, history know something about Olive Oatman. A warning: This is a long narrative. There is a plethora of books and historical accounts detailing her story,...
by Kendall Davis on 7/31/2024
I met Mr. Michael Farmer at the beach in my neighborhood, and he entertained us a couple of nights with his military and truck driving stories, so I asked if I could have an interview. Mike served in the...
by Kendall Davis on 6/29/2023
When the world seems to be going upside down, where the squeakiest wheel receives the oil while living in a fantasy world, and the polls say that only about 1/3 of U.S. Americans identify as conservative,...
by Kendall Davis on 1/27/2023
We do not know exactly when Sequoyah was born, but it was circa 1760-1770 when Sequoyah came into our American history in today’s eastern Tennessee. His family was known and highly respected for their...
by Kendall Davis on 12/29/2022
Yes, the tumbleweed is a Russian native that took over in the great prairies of the west. Why, out in West Texas, they grow as big as two stories tall. I accidentally learned about this immigrant plant while...
by Kendall Davis on 6/9/2022
I have had the extreme pleasure of being a half-breed, by culture only, between Oklahoma and Texas. My father was born in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, in 1923, and he made a name for himself in north Texas,...
by Kendall Davis on 5/26/2022
Ima Hogg was born in 1882 to Sarah Ann Stinson and Governor James Stephen Hogg in Mineola, Texas. There is a legend that Ima had a sister named Ura Hogg, but Ima had only three brothers. Ima’s name came...
by Kendall Davis on 5/12/2022
Imagine life before electricity, a phone, a radio, or even a TV, in every American home. Imagine listening to your favorite stories gathered round the wood burning stove on a Saturday night with your family on...
by Kendall Davis on 1/20/2022
Our US government, as our people moved westward at the beginning of our great nation, used Native American trails to move settlers ever further into middle America to finally meet from sea to shining...
by Kendall Davis on 8/12/2021
Longhorn cattle surround us in Texomaland. We all know the Longhorn played a key role in feeding the U.S., spurring on the cattle drive era to never be seen again, and romanticizing the cowboy in Texas and...
by Kendall Davis on 7/15/2021
Historians estimate that by the late 1700s, somewhere between 30 to 60 million buffalo drifted over the U.S. prairies providing food and clothing for Plains Indian Tribes. A century later, the buffalo was...
by Kendall Davis on 5/13/2021
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