Montford Johnson, the Chickasaw rancher who Norman’s Montford Inn is named for, traversed the state in the years before statehood. He bought and sold cattle, and negotiated with the Indian tribes ...

In 1836, a 9-year-old pioneer girl named Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped during a Comanche raid in North Texas. She was strapped onto the back of a horse and taken north, back into the Plains where ...