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

Jim Turner, a steam boat, sunk at Albion on the Red River in 1854.

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

Red River Station in Montague County, Texas is a ghost of the cattle trail driving past.

Colbert's hotel stood above his ferry, which once was replaced by a bridge in 1875 that the Red River promptly washed away.

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

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

After his 1772 visit to Taovaya at the Red River, Athanase De Mézières preferred the villages over Natchitoches.

On July 1, 1922, the national Union of Railroad Shopmen called for a country-wide strike, and Denison's MKT labor was about to participate.

The Van Dorn Trail led to a massacre and subsequently became a Trail of Tears for the Plains Indians.

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...

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

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

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."

Lake Texoma left archaeology and the towns of Aylesworth and Woodville, among others, beneath its waters.

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

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...

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