This photograph is possibly the last image of Comanche women in a traditional camp on the open prairie. Comanche women and child at...

Tombstones, especially military ones, are great ways to trace histrory. And the history from the tombstone needn’t be a family member,...

In 1958, Martin Luther King, Jr.  met with community and NAACP leaders to formulate a school integration plan at the (old) Galilee...

Note that the map’s cardinal directions are a bit different. From left to right is north to south. To see a larger image of this map,...

One of the oldest roads in the Red River Valley was the Tennessee to Washington (Hempstead County, Arkansas) to Fulton (Hempstead County)...

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...

I love strolling through cemeteries – the older and more overgrown, the better, of course. I’m not particularly ghoulish, though. I just...

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),...

Is there such a thing as an “urban planning nerd?” Because if there is, then that’s what I am. I have not formally studied this kind of...

I’ve been making several trips around the Red River Valley to discover forgotten towns for my book project this summer. However, I don’t...

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,...