Mt. Pleasant, Texas CCC Camp built at Edwards Park donated by the Sheriff Colonel Bill Edwards who brought an end to outlaw era after Civil War
October 31, 2025
Hero Thomas Witt’s death marked passage of a family
October 28, 2025
Mrs. Johnnie Henderson’s place offers summer sanctuary
October 21, 2025
Last home of World’s tallest man (Henry Clay Thouston) to be restored
October 17, 2025
Lament for a Lady: The Obituary or Caddo Lake and Other Fairey Tales
October 14, 2025
Price of salt in Titus County saw ten-fold increase when drought dried up the river
October 10, 2025
Ralph Sanders bull ride from Brownsville, Texas to the Brooklyn Bridge
October 7, 2025
Battlefield surgeon the unsung heroes of Anzio
October 3, 2025
Texas frontier fueled Methodist rebellion
September 30, 2025
Williams House Museum, 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
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Frome The East Texas Journal, November 2013 By Hudson old, Journal Publisher The only lawman to hang outlaws in Titus...
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Above Photo, a Cookville native, Thomas Witt was an Army Air Force Major flying missions from a base in...
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Frome East Texas Journal, July 2008 By Hudson Old, Journal Publisher Pittsburg, Texas - Mrs. Johnnie Henderson’s skipping the “empty...
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From East Texas Journal, October 1994 By PAT HAMILTON, Journal Correspondent In his circus appearances. Colonel Henry Clay Thouston billed...
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From East Texas Journal, October 2013 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher CADDO LAKE -- Jack Canson’s tale is strange even...
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From The East Texas Journal, October 2013 By Hudson Old, Journal Publisher PORT JEFFERSON, TEXAS – One summer in the...
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From East Texas Journal, February 2025 By Hudson Old, Journal Publisher Editor's Note: This story began with Harold Sanders 2012...
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Physician’s diary recalls sense of despair with Allied armies penned five months on WWII Italian beach. By HUDSON OLD Journal...
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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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