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

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.

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

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.

Eagletown was settled within a decade of the Louisiana Purchase and was originally a station on the Choctaw Trail of Tears.

Pedro Vial's map of the "Great Spanish Road" began in Natchitoches and passed by homes and ranches of traders/planters

One of the least studied but major trade arteries emanating from the Red River was the so-called "Great Spanish Road."

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

In 1838, when the United States and the Republic of Texas surveyed the boundary between the countries along the Index Line (today's...

The Chisholm Trail was known as the Abilene Cattle Trail on maps, but what about those who used the trail?

The Chihuahua Trail was a short-lived road blazed by merchants from Mexico and the U.S.

One of the oldest roads in the Red River Valley is the Southwest Trail in Arkansas.