The Peru Ferry near Gilliam served passengers and oil field traffic between Gilliam, Louisiana and the Old Plain Dealing Road.

The Spring Bank ferry over the Red River was unique, as the Blanton family operated it for over a hundred years, from 1836 until 1957.

Garland City petitioned for a bridge over the Red River, but someone (still a mystery!) exploded it in 1930.

US 80, formerly known as the Dixie Overland Highway, merges with the Bankhead Highway and is the mother road of the Red River Valley.

The Good Roads Movement was the brainchild of two inventions: the Safety Bicycle and the Automobile.

The Butterfield Overland Mail Route was the first transcontinental road in the United States.

The toll bridge at Sowell's Bluff at the Red River, between Fannin County, Texas and Bryan County, Oklahoma collapsed in 1934.

The King of Trails took travelers from Kansas to the Gulf Coast of Texas.

The Index Bridge over the Red River between Texas and Arkansas was once a beautiful structure.

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

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

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

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

Stone ruins near Denison, just a stone's throw from the Old Jefferson Highway, could be related to automobile travel or something else.

Jack Loftin, the remarkable man who wrote, created, and repaired the stone monuments, proved to be a true history machine.

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.

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

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