In the margins in historic newspapers, reports act as if random horrors of racism and misogyny are everyday things.

An unpublished and undated engineer's report details a plan to connect McKinney to Paris with an interurban railway.

Discovery of an ancient village at Fish Creek, formerly a channel of the Red River in Cooke County, Texas, explains Cross Timbers people.

I found two other maps of Texas, both from the period after Texas statehood (1845), that shows Warren's trading posts.

Along Cherry Street in downtown Sherman is an interesting ruin behind the 1888 Cottonbelt railroad depot.

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

Photographs of downtown Denison (Grayson County, Texas) are always so giving: fun to post, fun to research, and fun to look at!

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.

An undated photograph depicts "a busy Saturday in Durant, Bryan County, Oklahoma."

Evidence of the Caddo City of the Dead along Ozan Creek at Washington, Hempstead County, Arkansas has been almost entirely eliminated.

Ozan in Hempstead County, Arkansas is a true City of the Dead, a place that connected to the Battle Mound village along the Red River.

The only available photographic documentation of an execution carried out by the Choctaw Nation's Lighthorsemen.

One of my favorite maps of the Red River is Nicolas de Fer's illustrated map published in France in 1718.

A map from 1872 details some original cattle trails that ran through Texas after the Civil War.

The photos of hotels in Clarksville from 1885 are from an archive that is no longer available.

Near Marksville, Louisiana sit 2,500 year old, human constructed mounds... ancient, earthen pyramids. They've been abandoned once again.

The Caddo Nation mined salt for over eight hundred years, and this activity remained an Arkansas industry into the 19th century.

Top o' Hill Terrace was one the biggest gambling halls, bordellos, and speakeasies in the Southwest.

Most of the buildings that lie inside Fair Park in Dallas today are landmarks built purposefully for the 1936 Centennial Exposition.