Railroads were open season for Oklahoma and Indian Territory outlaw gangs. Glenn Shirley, the late historian of Oklahoma’s frontier history of...
Renegades of the Rails
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The Saga of Texas Jack
A successful outlaw got out of the game at the right time. Nathaniel Reed was called “Texas Jack”—a bit odd since he was from Arkansas and...
Riding the Rails into History
The well-known story of the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad and the Irish and Chinese men who built it has been recounted many times,...
The Tall Tales Of Texas Jack Reed’s stories exceeded his exploits.
Nathaniel “Texas Jack” Reed was an outlaw in the Oklahoma and Indian territories in the 1880s and ‘90s. He was involved a handful of train...
Rare Images of the Old West
Photography became available just in time to capture most of the Westward movement of our nation. Although too late for the Spanish Southwest and...