Before it was the Bankhead Highway, it was the Southern National Highway

The toll bridge at Sowell's Bluff at the Red River, between Fannin County, Texas and Bryan County, Oklahoma collapsed in 1934.

The upper portion of this 1840 map by General Cooke of Grayson and Fannin counties shows a number of places that no longer exist

Gloster became a functioning place only after the Texas & Pacific trains came through

The King of Trails took travelers from Kansas to the Gulf Coast of Texas.

West of downtown Dallas was the settlement "La Reunion," founded by socialists in 1850s.

This 1865 map by Helmuth Holtz depicts the Great Bend Region of the Red River.

The toll bridge at Colbert was the site of the Red River Bridge "war."

The Index Bridge over the Red River between Texas and Arkansas was once a beautiful structure.

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

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

In 1919, the U.S. government authorized a Military Motor Convoy to traverse the Bankhead Highway.

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

Pedro Vial's map of the "Great Spanish Road" began in Natchitoches and passed by homes and ranches of traders/planters

Josiah Gregg's trading path became the "Gold Road" for German immigrants.

There was always a mystery to me surrounding a name of a street in Eagletown, Oklahoma – Mad Man Road.

The Chihuahua Trail was a short-lived road blazed by merchants from Mexico and the U.S.

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

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