A muggy Summer day's adventure into downtown Dallas revealed what Bonnie Parker, partner in crime to Clyde Barrow, called "the Great Divide."

Taking a road trip on the old Jefferson Highway is a treasure deserving of preserving.

US 75, once known by different names like the Postal Highway, King of Trails, and the Gulf Highway, can still be driven on its original routes from Kansas to Galveston.

I'm here to rant that loop highways and bypasses are stupid ideas.

When Route 66 served as the main highway through Amarillo, the Triangle Motel on the east side was the first place west-bound travelers saw.

The northwestern portions of the Ozark Trail were subsumed by the federal highway project designated as US 66, aka the original Route 66.

The New Year edition of the Wichita Daily Times from 1919 highlights all of the new interstate highways that cover Texas.

From 1893 to 1920, Rainy Mountain Indian School "Americanized" children from the Kiowa and Apache tribes, and now lies as an unmarked ruin.

The Central National Road connected Dallas, Texas to Washington, Arkansas.

Top o' Hill Terrace was one the biggest gambling halls, bordellos, and speakeasies in the Southwest.

US 80, formerly known as the Dixie Overland Highway, merges with the Bankhead Highway and is the mother road of the Red River Valley.

The Good Roads Movement was the brainchild of two inventions: the Safety Bicycle and the Automobile.

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

The toll bridge at Sowell's Bluff at the Red River, between Fannin County, Texas and Bryan County, Oklahoma collapsed in 1934.

Gloster became a functioning place only after the Texas & Pacific trains came through

The toll bridge at Colbert was the site of the Red River Bridge "war."

The Index Bridge over the Red River between Texas and Arkansas was once a beautiful structure.

In 1919, the U.S. government authorized a Military Motor Convoy to traverse the Bankhead Highway.

Using a 1924 automobile route map certainly helps in this tribute to Red River Valley road trips.