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...

Around 1821, Spanish Texas became Mexican Texas.

Camp Augur in today’s Tillman County, Oklahoma was founded in 1871 to protect the tribes impacted by the Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867.

The Willis Cemetery sits just off US 377 north of Lake Texoma in Marshall County, Oklahoma.

Warren was once the seat of Fannin County, Texas

I was nosing around the digital collections listed at by the Louisiana State University (Shreveport) libraries and found the Parker map.

I found a couple of 1872 sketches of the “Red River” by Alfred Rudolph Waud. Waud was an English illustrator who worked in the last half...

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...

The northern portion of John Pope’s 1854 map to survey a possible transcontinental route through Texas marks the Cross Timbers between...

The Chisholm Trail was known as the Abilene Cattle Trail on maps, but what about those who used the trail?

The Chihuahua Trail was a short-lived road blazed by merchants from Mexico and the U.S.

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

Comanche women in Mow-wi camp at Palo Duro Canyon during the Red River War.

One of the oldest roads in the Red River Valley is the Southwest Trail in Arkansas.

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...

Now available all over the place! I am not one for bragging, but when I opened the box that contained my author’s copies of my newest...