The Red River Valley above Fulton/ Clarksville / Fort Towson was not fully mapped until after the Civil War. The first regional mapping...

Due to work related activities, I've been nosing around Gainesville (Cooke County, Texas) lately. The city was founded as a settlement in...

Founded in 1867, Fort Griffin (Shackleford County, Texas) is now a state historic site.

Since 1880s at least, and most likely at least two decades prior, the corner of State/ East Fourth/ Sam Rayburn and North Chestnut...

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

In 1838, when the United States and the Republic of Texas surveyed the boundary between the countries along the Index Line (today's...

Alvin Reeves, a Great War soldier, is buried in the segregated portion of Gates Hill Cemetery in Bonham, Texas.

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

In the 1890s, these unnamed men from Montague County, Texas posed for a photograph after filing claims against the U.S. government for...

Around 1821, Spanish Texas became Mexican Texas.

This wire sent from Denison in April of 1873 reported an Indian raid that never happened. This article was cited widely in multiple...

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

I freakin' found the cells of Denton County's old jail in a Texas field full of brambles!

The Farmers Improvement College near Ladonia, Fannin County, Texas was designed for agricultural and domestic training.

A feature map of Cooke County, Texas, reveals the Brushy Mound community, also known as Brushy Mountain (Texas General Land Office). The...

Warren was once the seat of Fannin County, Texas

Just north of Logansport, Louisiana, along FM 31 in Panola County, Texas and CR 765 in De Soto Parish , sits one of the more interesting...

Drove to Henrietta, Clay County, Texas the other day to take some photos and came across this utilitarian, brick structure behind an...

Sibley (1757-1837) is buried in the American Cemetery in Natchitoches, Louisiana. John Sibley was the first Indian Agent in the Louisiana...

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