Let me bore you to sleep by telling you about the history of pavement on early Dallas roads!

Lafayette and Lost Prairie in Arkansas were built by slave labor and washed away by the Red River.

A rare, hand-drawn map of southwestern Arkansas during the Civil War.

Randolph B. Marcy and Black Beaver built trails all along the Red River Valley.

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

The published account of the 28th Congressional Session in 1843 included a number of maps and drawings. These visuals helped to...

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

I have never seen Mansura, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, well-represented on any map prior to satellite data. But we can figure out why...

The Red River Valley above Fulton/ Clarksville / Fort Towson was not fully mapped until after the Civil War. The first regional mapping...

Texas likes that it's big, and between 1860 and 1894, it was actually a million and a half acres larger than it is today. That's because...

Pedro Vial's map of the "Great Spanish Road" began in Natchitoches and passed by homes and ranches of traders/planters

One of the least studied but major trade arteries emanating from the Red River was the so-called "Great Spanish Road."

Josiah Gregg's trading path became the "Gold Road" for German immigrants.

Founded in 1867, Fort Griffin (Shackleford County, Texas) is now a state historic site.

Since 1880s at least, and most likely at least two decades prior, the corner of State/ East Fourth/ Sam Rayburn and North Chestnut...

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

In 1838, when the United States and the Republic of Texas surveyed the boundary between the countries along the Index Line (today's...

In August of 1859, surveyors marked the 100th Meridian at the Red River - the line that marks the eastern boundary of the Texas panhandle...

The map by Jean Baptist Franquelin, printed in Paris (France) in 1684, is a facsimile of the original that has been lost. It now resides...

According to this map filed by the Houston & Texas Railroad with the Texas General Land Office, their rail line was proposed to extend to...