How the Interstate obliterated a vintage Shreveport scene of the De Fatta grocery store, shot gun shacks, and hot tamale vendors.

In the margins in historic newspapers, reports act as if random horrors of racism and misogyny are everyday things.

An undated photograph depicts "a busy Saturday in Durant, Bryan County, Oklahoma."

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

In 1929, the U.S. legislature wanted to eliminate toll bridges across the Red River (and other places) due to scandalous behavior.

The Cossatot River derives from a French word meaning"crushed head," and in 1833, it was to be spanned by a toll bridge.

Why was there an outrage about this map that landed in the newspapers?

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

This report by Captain Henry Shreve explains that the Red River Raft removal is complete. Kinda.

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

While in Fort Worth upon her capture in 1860, Cynthia Ann Parker's first photograph was taken while she nursed her daughter.

Annotated editorial from the Chicago Tribune to provide some context about slavery in the Choctaw Nation.

Mound City in Red River County, Texas once welcomed steamboats in the 1870s

Randolph B. Marcy was not impressed by the people who lived in the Red River Valley.

The purpose of "Shed Road" in Bossier City was to prevent rain from soaking the dirt trail below.

An aero-trolley at Turner Falls, Oklahoma. This may have been the general idea of the proposed ferry over the Red River. Oklahoma.net In...

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

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