Texas frontier fueled Methodist rebellion
September 30, 2025
Titus County namesake statesman Andrew Jackson Titus surfaces on Red River near DeKalb, Texas
September 19, 2025
Photo of legendary elephant crossing the Red River survives forensic analysis
September 16, 2025
Fabled Elder Family Show elephant turns up in archives
September 9, 2025
Show girls sweeten Sugar Hill, Texas
September 2, 2025
Happy Hogs and Sugar Cane Sweeten Hess Family’s Place
August 29, 2025
Last Cowboy on the Bankhead Highway
August 26, 2025
JFK conspiracy theories rise from mixed blood of Camp, Red River and Titus Counties
August 22, 2025
War brought Longhorn Army Ammunitions Plant to East Texas
August 20, 2025
War-Time plant that ‘changed the world’ idled at Lone Star Steel
August 15, 2025
Secret Cold War military lab embedded at steel plant
August 8, 2025
Gunfight at Naples saloon
August 6, 2025
Frontier history spans 180 years on Daphne Prairie
July 25, 2025
Longview Yacht Club
July 23, 2025
Big Earl’s Galley Cafe and Bait Shop
July 18, 2025
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From the East Texas Journal, December 2023 By Hudson Old, Journal Publisher HUGHES SPRINGS – In the process of...
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Above photo, a couple with a good ear for Texas stories, Carolyn and Mike McCrary are docents at the Williams...
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This photograph is said to show an elephant carrying a young George Holt across the Red River into Texas in...
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Photo above, townsfolk at Sulphur Bluff gather for a photo with the dancers and musicians before the Elder Family Show's...
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In the photo Above are Bennie Elder and Augusta Mae “Gussie” DeLockery, circa 1918. Bennie was one of the three...
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Seventh generation on the family place, at 26 Ryan Hess has been around the block. He tried rodeoing after his...
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Bankhead Highway From the East Texas Journal, April 2016 Author Dan Smith put the history of the Bankhead Highway in...
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Above photo, one time Camp County resident James Tague said the FBI purposely discredited him to discount his first-hand account,...
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Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant From The East Texas Journal, August 2022 By Hudson Old, Publisher MARSHALL, TEXAS – The last...
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Above photo shows an airship built to accommodate researchers and military personnel flying into secret test facilities was built at...
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Above photo, the secret Cold War military lab at Lone Star was the first to use a side door that...
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By Hudson Old, Journal publisher Naples, Texas - It was December 3,1898, sometime just after dark. The saloons along Front...
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Daphne Prairie From the East Texas Journal, August 1994 In 1767, a French explorer who traveled the Cherokee Trace from...
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Longview Yacht Club From the East Texas Journal, January 2015 Lake O The Pines, Texas – The son has become...
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Big Earl's, From the East Texas Journal, May 2015 Pittsburg, Texas – Saturday nights, they took orders for étouffée in the...
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