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

Along a county road in Jackson County, Oklahoma, lies the lonesome grave of Joel Moseley, 1846-1890. Mr. Moseley was born in Georgia and,...

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

Boggy Depot Plan numbers Depot Muriel Wright 1927 1. Gov. Allen Wright’s residence. 2. John. Kingsbury residence. 3. House built by Mr....

Near Aurora (Wise County, Texas) is this old grocery store. I wonder if the store was witness to the UFO crash landing, which allegedly...

Three major Native American tribes called the Red River Valley of the Southwest home long before Europeans staked their claims. The...

Indulge me for a moment while I vent a consistent frustration of mine… and probably one experienced by historians (professional and lay...

I took up a new hobby last year – estate sale shopping. Like my “hobby” of ghost town collecting, this new pastime does not require...

On my website, Red River Historian, I haven’t often written about controversial topics in history because I tend to shy away from...

The Red River Valley of the South still contains the remnants of segregation inside many of its cemeteries.

In the US, death of history is frequent. I’m not talking about historical events today, even though they have their own share of death...

I decided to get away from the mundane humdrum that is my life (and, to be honest, to find something else to do besides clean the house),...

I'm an Urban Planning Nerd with a plea to make your town, and my town, more beautiful.

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...

Lots of the pictures I post on my website, www.redriverhistorian.com, tend to be of ruins – disused buildings and such – and sometimes,...

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...

The old story of the “Arkansas Traveler” tells of a person coming through the backwoods of Arkansas and happening upon a house. The...

Using a 1924 automobile route map certainly helps in this tribute to Red River Valley road trips.

When you take into the account the vast volumes of literature that American historians have produced over the last two centuries, what...