Red River Station was the fabled crossing for the Abilene Cattle Trail at the Red River in Montague County during the 1870s and 1880s.

The Killgore Mansion is tied to the Cloud Stark Mansion of Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas... and it's not just based on the time period.

Besides the calaboose, there's not much else in Devol to explain the town's former industriousness.

A history of a house, especially an older home, is very genealogical, like the former Killgore house on Commerce Street in Gainesville, TX.

The "Old Southwest," which is dominated by the Red River, is a political rather than a cultural designation.

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