The "Old Southwest," which is dominated by the Red River, is a political rather than a cultural designation.

Architecture was coded and uniform to be efficient in their builds, even the places that we now view as one-of-a-kind quaintness.

The Shawnees were originally from the Ohio River, not the Red River.

The Red River Valley witnessed racialist violence, based on whites deflecting, throughout the first half of the 20th century.

The Great Raft of the Red River: A Massive Log Jam with its own Eco System

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.

Four major tribes — the Red River Originals — inhabited the Red River Valley of the Southwest before and during European invasion.

The Trail of Tears for the Choctaws ended at a little place called Ultima Thule, and the beginning of their new home was Eagletown.

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

Randolph B. Marcy was not impressed by the people who lived in the Red River Valley.

Draughon's Business Colleges private offered a "no-frills education without sports teams, commencement, and other distractions."

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

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.

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

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

Map fro the 28th Congressional Session, 1848, of distances between federal outposts in the American Southwest (LOC). The published...

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

Muriel Wright documented Boggy Depot well.