Before it ferried cars across, Carpenter's Bluff bridge served as a train crossing.

A wreck in the Red River is an archeological site.

By the late 1830s, Boggy Depot centered the Choctaw/ Chickasaw Nation.

There was the once-large town of Gotebo, Oklahoma.

Roosevelt has disproportionately more cars than it does humans, but the cars are what keep the humans in Roosevelt.

Tatums in Carter County, Oklahoma was an all-black town that enjoyed a brief oil boom.

Doaksville in Choctaw County, Oklahoma is now a ghost town but was once a very important place.

Spanish Fort in Montague County, Texas was originally a Taovayan village that spanned the Red River.

Preston was founded by Holland Coffee, and yes, that was his real name.

The home of Charles DeMorse, publisher of the Northern Standard of the 1840s-1850, in Clarksville, Texas.

The old town of Washington, Arkansas was once the biggest town in the Southwest.

Fulton grew up along the Great Bend of the Red River but is no longer growing.

Several years ago, I drove the entire Belt Line Road that circles around Dallas County, and I did it again this past month.

San Calixto in the Wichita Mountains - the Sierra Jumanos - was probably the base for gold prospecting after it failed as a mission in 1629.

An announcement of a stern wheeler going to Beal's Landing in Fannin County.

A "National Recreation Area" that was once named after a senator from Connecticut.

The western valley especially testified to this internal refugee crisis.

The Clarity Tunnel is the star of the ride.

Before it was the Bankhead Highway, it was the Southern National Highway

A Rare Map of Oklahoma from 1892 shows towns, trails, districts, counties, and more.