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

The only available photographic documentation of an execution carried out by the Choctaw Nation's Lighthorsemen.

Mudgett aka Holmes aka Lyman aka Pratt, the builder of the Murder Castle in Fort Worth, was executed by hanging in 1896.

Newspaper articles report on the same event: the Great Hanging in Gainesville, as well as other murders that took place in North Texas

The most notorious brothel in Denison was Brown Front, named so because it, well, had an unpainted wooden front that was none too pretty.

Dallas boasted several vice districts: Boggy Bayou, Deep Ellum, the Reservation, West Dallas, and Commerce Street.

Infamous bandit Machine Gun Kelley is buried here inside his wife Kathryn's family's plot in Wise County, Texas.

The Theft of the Red River Medicine Stone, a giant meteorite, may have deeply affected relations between nations in the Red River Valley.

The Red River Valley witnessed racialist violence, based on whites deflecting, throughout the first half of the 20th century.

The public lynching of Henry Smith in Paris, Texas in 1893 was detailed in a commemorative book by his murderers.

Psychopath Cullen Baker's despicable Reconstruction-era crimes in the Red River Valley make him a mass-murderer.

Bill Dalton of the infamous "Dalton Gang" was born in Missouri in 1865 and died near Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma in 1894.

The demise of Tuck's Ferry in Love County, Oklahoma was the outcome of the ferry operator's murder.

I freakin' found the cells of Denton County's old jail in a Texas field full of brambles!