Photographs of downtown Denison (Grayson County, Texas) are always so giving: fun to post, fun to research, and fun to look at!

A Hamlet-Style Transaction between Tishomingo of the Chickasaws and the Choctaws, as related by a French writer in 1749.

Several years ago, I took a road trip and found myself at Indian City, USA. I'm glad I did, because Indian City, USA is no more.

Whenever I saw Locke's Tin Shop in downtown Sherman, I thought it the prettiest building I'd ever seen.

In the 1950s, salty Estelline Spring at the Prairie Dog Town Fork released 300 tons of the mineral daily into the Red River.

Ultimately, what has been destroyed in Sulphur, Oklahoma has been resurrected

An undated photograph depicts "a busy Saturday in Durant, Bryan County, Oklahoma."

This French map from 1783 combines European claims and native America.

The New Year edition of the Wichita Daily Times from 1919 highlights all of the new interstate highways that cover Texas.

Epperson's Ferry served the Trammel Trace across the Sulphur River in Bowie County.

Red River Station was the fabled crossing for the Abilene Cattle Trail at the Red River in Montague County during the 1870s and 1880s.

The Killgore Mansion is tied to the Cloud Stark Mansion of Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas... and it's not just based on the time period.

Besides the calaboose, there's not much else in Devol to explain the town's former industriousness.

A history of a house, especially an older home, is very genealogical, like the former Killgore house on Commerce Street in Gainesville, TX.

The "Old Southwest," which is dominated by the Red River, is a political rather than a cultural designation.

In October of 2023, I lost hearing in my left year. No big deal, I thought, because my right ear more than made up for the loss, and I...

Is this a railroad or a wagon bridge at Colbert's bridge across the Red River?

This photograph depicts "part of Satanta's Kiowa Band at Sutler's Store, Fort Sill, Indian Territory" by either Soule or Bliss.

In 1929, the U.S. legislature wanted to eliminate toll bridges across the Red River (and other places) due to scandalous behavior.

The Caddo structures were so numerous that Europeans who came to the Red River labeled southwestern Arkansas "Mound City."