n 1940, photographer Marion Wolcott of the Works Progress Administration visited Natchitoches, Louisiana along the Cane River.

The Sale and Murphy Canal along the Red River once linked Louisiana and Arkansas around the upper portions of the Great Raft.

Mound City in Red River County, Texas once welcomed steamboats in the 1870s

The Natchez settlement that was destroyed by French troops and Choctaw, Houma, and Tunica allies in the early 1730s.

The construction of Denison Dam restricted accessing between Texas and Oklahoma. Bring on the ferry!

The former MKT freight depot behind the School Book Depository in downtown Dallas.

Shreve's Cut of the Mississippi River led to engineering the Red and Atchafalaya Rivers, and the victim was Red River Landing.

let me bore you to sleep by telling you about the history of pavement on early Dallas roads!

Jim Turner, a steam boat, sunk at Albion on the Red River in 1854.

Lafayette and Lost Prairie in Arkansas were built by slave labor and washed away by the Red River.

The Globe Building in Electra, Texas is now lost.

Red River Station in Montague County, Texas is a ghost of the cattle trail driving past.

Colbert's hotel stood above his ferry, which once was replaced by a bridge in 1875 that the Red River promptly washed away.

The purpose of "Shed Road" in Bossier City was to prevent rain from soaking the dirt trail below.

East of DeKalb, Bowie County, Texas and a few miles south of the Red River is the tiny community of Garland.

Bradley's Corner was a "collection of tents, shacks and oil field shops" in the Northwest Extension Field.

Stone ruins near Denison, just a stone's throw from the Old Jefferson Highway, could be related to automobile travel or something else.

Jefferson, the county seat of Marion County, Texas, became an inland port after the first federal Red River raft (massive log jam)...

Due to work related activities, I've been nosing around Gainesville (Cooke County, Texas) lately. The city was founded as a settlement in...

Since 1880s at least, and most likely at least two decades prior, the corner of State/ East Fourth/ Sam Rayburn and North Chestnut...