One bright, sunny, and very hot day, I traversed the Texas portion of US 82 into Archer County from Wichita County, on my way to some...

Map fro the 28th Congressional Session, 1848, of distances between federal outposts in the American Southwest (LOC). The published...

Jefferson, the county seat of Marion County, Texas, became an inland port after the first federal Red River raft (massive log jam)...

In 1927, Muriel H. Wright, a teacher and one of Oklahoma's most detailed historians, mapped Boggy Depot (Atoka County, Oklahoma) from...

In the 1890s, these unnamed men from Montague County, Texas posed for a photograph after filing claims against the U.S. government for...

This wire sent from Denison in April of 1873 reported an Indian raid that never happened. This article was cited widely in multiple...

Eagletown’s downtown, McCurtain County, Oklahoma. Eagletown may be the oldest town in the southeastern part of the state. It may not look...

The well-built little school in Roosevelt, built by the Works Progress Administration, had two entrances – one for girls, and one for...

The Grand Central Hotel (first class, no less!) in Terral, Jefferson County, Oklahoma was an imposing building at the turn of the century...

Just north of Logansport, Louisiana, along FM 31 in Panola County, Texas and CR 765 in De Soto Parish , sits one of the more interesting...

Drove to Henrietta, Clay County, Texas the other day to take some photos and came across this utilitarian, brick structure behind an...

Reader Ben Jones graciously shared a vantage point of the Red River that’s rarely seen nowadays – Spanish Bluff on the southern bank of...

According to the National Register, De Soto Parish, which lies between the Red and Sabine rivers in northwestern Louisiana, contains the...

Grant Foreman, one of Oklahoma’s first historians, appears in this photograph overlooking the ruins of Fort Towson in 1900. Although Fort...

(Library of Congress) A geological map of coal claims around Coalgate, Coal County, Indian Territory (Oklahoma) from ca. 1900 shows that...

From 1841 to 1868, McKenzie Institute (also called McKenzie College) was the pride of Clarksville, Red River County, Texas. Until the end...

I was snooping around the online archives of the Texas General Land Office and found this document. It’s for John Neely Bryan, the...

In 1958, Martin Luther King, Jr.  met with community and NAACP leaders to formulate a school integration plan at the (old) Galilee...

Note that the map’s cardinal directions are a bit different. From left to right is north to south. To see a larger image of this map,...

Three major Native American tribes called the Red River Valley of the Southwest home long before Europeans staked their claims. The...