The Comancheria — the Comanche Empire — became a formidable force for both the Europeans and Anglo American colonizers.

The public lynching of Henry Smith in Paris, Texas in 1893 was detailed in a commemorative book by his murderers.

Bonnie and Clyde met in West Dallas, a place that defined them and their deeds.

Psychopath Cullen Baker's despicable Reconstruction-era crimes in the Red River Valley make him a mass-murderer.

Records by the Freedmen's Bureau from the Red River Valley describe horrors.

The Great Western Trail was the last great northern cattle trail.

The Shawnee Trail is also known as Preston Road or Texas Trail or Military Road or Emigrant Trail.

The Chisholm Trail was mostly known as the Abilene Cattle Trail through Indian Territory.

Brown's Spring in Love County, Oklahoma is a natural spring about 200 yards from the Red River.

Bonnie Parker's funeral director lived and worked above the funeral home. He had to move into the Adolphus Hotel, however. Why?

Fort Los Adaes near Robeline, Louisiana was once the capital of Spanish Texas.

The Butterfield Overland Mail Route was the first transcontinental road in the United States.

Before it ferried cars across, Carpenter's Bluff bridge served as a train crossing.

Spanish Fort in Montague County, Texas was originally a Taovayan village that spanned the Red River.

Preston was founded by Holland Coffee, and yes, that was his real name.

The home of Charles DeMorse, publisher of the Northern Standard of the 1840s-1850, in Clarksville, Texas.

Several years ago, I drove the entire Belt Line Road that circles around Dallas County, and I did it again this past month.

The Clarity Tunnel is the star of the ride.

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