The Index Line stretched all the way from Logansport north to the Red River.

Southern Maid Donuts, particularly the ones made in Shreveport, Louisiana, are served fresh and hot in the afternoon.

The electric interurban railway systems connected cities along the region designated as "North Texas."

I decided to take a look at the life of the Beeswing, a steamer on the Red River, after finding a receipt from 1844.

Between 1810 and 1813, John Maley journeyed up the Red River and visited Natchitoches twice, but didn't enjoy either visit.

The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1873 claimed several victims in Shreveport, including Eugene Woodruff, who removed the Raft of the Red River.

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.