One settlement along this path that interests me is at the western end of the road on this map - Chichi.

An oral history about Dr. Martin Luther King's visit to Shreveport in the 1950s.

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...

Paddle wheeler “Amy Hewes” on the Red River (no date), but most likely this picture was taken in the 1940s. The “Amy Hewes” was built in...

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

Adverts in old newspapers help to provide context to history, such as how much the Red River Valley was interconnected long before our...

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

French map from 1754 (Library of Congress) Did you know that the now- states of Arkansas and Louisiana once bordered Georgia, North, and...

Nathan Banks, Union general, left a relic of the Red River Campaign at Bailey's Dam in Alexandria, Louisiana.

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

The Red River Valley of the South still contains the remnants of segregation inside many of its cemeteries.

Most antebellum towns west of the Mississippi River did not survive the railroad boom and became ghosts.

Texas is a big state. It’s also my birthplace and the birthplace of my dad, so of course I feel affinity for it… sometimes. It’s also a...

This old plantation store between Shreveport and Natchitoches, Louisiana, is where sharecroppers, who were paid with scrip, would buy...