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

The purpose of Camp Howze in Gainesville, Texas was to train infantry for activation during World War II.

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.

On July 1, 1922, the national Union of Railroad Shopmen called for a country-wide strike, and Denison's MKT labor was about to participate.

Randolph B. Marcy and Black Beaver built trails all along the Red River Valley.

The Van Dorn Trail led to a massacre and subsequently became a Trail of Tears for the Plains Indians.

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

Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped and adopted into a Comanche family, who renamed her Narua (foundling) in 1836.

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

Jack Loftin, the remarkable man who wrote, created, and repaired the stone monuments, proved to be a true history machine.

If you counted yourself among the fashionable pioneer set, a MUST-DO was to cross into Indian Territory by way of the Doan's Store.

One of the easiest ways to spot a ghost town is to follow abandoned railroad lines. When the companies were building their right-of-ways...

The Red River Valley above Fulton/ Clarksville / Fort Towson was not fully mapped until after the Civil War. The first regional mapping...

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...

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

Founded in 1867, Fort Griffin (Shackleford County, Texas) is now a state historic site.

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

Lake Texoma left archaeology and the towns of Aylesworth and Woodville, among others, beneath its waters.