WEST SOUTH CENTRAL

This region includes; Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas.

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Bill Pickett Saddle

Did this saddle ride into cowboy history with one of rodeo's most daring innovators? ...More

Chisholm Trail

In the small town of Donna, Texas, near the Mexican border, a historic marker declares that the famous trail ran through this area...More

Calf Creek Arrow

An Oklahoma resident discovered an unusual bison skull while fossil hunting in a dry riverbed...More

Cherokee Bible

A Texan of Cherokee descent inherits a mysterious bible from her father...More

Civil War Soldier Photo

A Louisiana resident owns a Civil War photograph featuring a finely boned, slight-figured soldier...More

Civil War Submarine

In Louisiana's bustling French Quarter sits a surprising remnant of American warfare - a Civil War-era submarine...More

Doc Holliday's Watch

Four years ago, a pawn store clerk in Tulsa, Oklahoma, met a customer claiming to be a descendant of John Henry "Doc" Holliday...More

Japanese Balloon Bomb

Is this scrap of fabric evidence of a secret wartime attack on the United States' mainland?  ...More

Mexican Currency

Searching through his great-grandfather's belongings a San Antonio man finds Mexican currency and suspects a link to infamous bandits Zapata and Pancho Villa...More

Napoleons Sword

A magnificent sword that has been handed down for generations in a St. Martinville family has a mystery around it...More

Pirate Spyglass

Jean Lafitte was a fearsome pirate, an ingenious privateer, and a war hero...More

Railroad Station

A local historian calls in the history detectives to find out if a disused depot was the first railroad station in Texas and if it was responsible for putting Dallas on the map...More

Texas POW Camp

resident of Hearne, Texas recently heard rumors that a German POW camp was based in her town during World War II...More

WW1 Chemical Warfare Map

A woman inherits a map of a World War I battlefield in France from her grandfather, an engineer under General Pershing...More