If you counted yourself among the fashionable pioneer set, a MUST-DO was to cross into Indian Territory by way of the Doan's Store....

Eagletown (McCurtain County, Oklahoma) began its existence within a decade after the Louisiana Purchase. American settlers, seeking new...

Vial's "Spanish Road" route begins in Natchitoches and passes by homes and ranches of traders/planters. It mentions several...

One of the least studied but apparently, major trade arteries emanating from the Red River was the so-called "Great Spanish Road" that...

This map, published in Annaberg (Saxony), explained the relative location of Texas and the roads and trails that led to the California...

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

An English cowboy paid to have his picture taking at Red River Station in Montague County, Texas before heading up the Abilene Trail...

I often spend my evenings (as well as days, weekends, times when I should be grading papers…) perusing old maps. One of my particular...