In the 1890s, these unnamed men from Montague County, Texas posed for a photograph after filing claims against the U.S. government for...

This wire sent from Denison in April of 1873 reported an Indian raid that never happened. This article was cited widely in multiple...

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

The Douglass Separate School in Roosevelt, Oklahoma.

The Grand Central Hotel (first class, no less!) in Terral, Jefferson County, Oklahoma was an imposing building at the turn of the century...

Just north of Logansport, Louisiana, along FM 31 in Panola County, Texas and CR 765 in De Soto Parish , sits one of the more interesting...

Drove to Henrietta, Clay County, Texas the other day to take some photos and came across this utilitarian, brick structure behind an...

Reader Ben Jones graciously shared a vantage point of the Red River that’s rarely seen nowadays – Spanish Bluff on the southern bank of...

According to the National Register, De Soto Parish, which lies between the Red and Sabine rivers in northwestern Louisiana, contains the...

Detroit, Texas was home to Cactus Jack aka John Nance Garner, Vice President to Franklin Roosevelt form 1933 to 1941.

From 1841 to 1868, McKenzie Institute (also called McKenzie College) was the pride of Clarksville, Red River County, Texas. Until the end...

I was snooping around the online archives of the Texas General Land Office and found this document. It’s for John Neely Bryan, the...

Check out some Grayson County Rails!

Three major Native American tribes called the Red River Valley of the Southwest home long before Europeans staked their claims. The...

Indulge me for a moment while I vent a consistent frustration of mine… and probably one experienced by historians (professional and lay...

I took up a new hobby last year – estate sale shopping. Like my “hobby” of ghost town collecting, this new pastime does not require...

On my website, Red River Historian, I haven’t often written about controversial topics in history because I tend to shy away from...

The Red River Valley of the South still contains the remnants of segregation inside many of its cemeteries.

In the US, death of history is frequent. I’m not talking about historical events today, even though they have their own share of death...

I decided to get away from the mundane humdrum that is my life (and, to be honest, to find something else to do besides clean the house),...