The Great Western Trail was the last great northern cattle trail.

The Chisholm Trail was mostly known as the Abilene Cattle Trail through Indian Territory.

Brown's Spring in Love County, Oklahoma is a natural spring about 200 yards from the Red River.

Bonnie Parker's funeral director lived and worked above the funeral home. He had to move into the Adolphus Hotel, however. Why?

Fort Los Adaes near Robeline, Louisiana was once the capital of Spanish Texas.

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

Before it ferried cars across, Carpenter's Bluff bridge served as a train crossing.

Spanish Fort in Montague County, Texas was originally a Taovayan village that spanned the Red River.

Preston was founded by Holland Coffee, and yes, that was his real name.

The home of Charles DeMorse, publisher of the Northern Standard of the 1840s-1850, in Clarksville, Texas.

The upper portion of this 1840 map by General Cooke of Grayson and Fannin counties shows a number of places that no longer exist

"The devastating 1908 flood's effect on the "Frisco Bridge - Warner Junction - Red River Flood. May 26th '08."

West of downtown Dallas was the settlement "La Reunion," founded by socialists in 1850s.

A map showing the stagecoach route through Pilot Grove (Grayson County, Texas) in 1865.

In 1887 W.B. Wise of Paris, Lamar County, Texas decided to show off his wealth by building a Queen Anne style home.

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

The relationship between Gainesville, Texas and Indian Territory as explained by the Chickasaw Hotel.

The Chickasaws witnessed a land and genealogical invasion by Texans in the early 20th century.

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

The Resettlement Administration was defunded when sharecroppers tenant farms were added to the program.