When Route 66 served as the main highway through Amarillo, the Triangle Motel on the east side was the first place west-bound travelers saw.

The New Year edition of the Wichita Daily Times from 1919 highlights all of the new interstate highways that cover Texas.

Between 1809 and 1819, a young American named Henry Ker traveled up the Red River from its mouth to its far western reaches search of gold.

In a description of his travels to Texas, Olmsted and his party pushed on to Gaines Ferry on the Sabine River.

The Peru Ferry near Gilliam served passengers and oil field traffic between Gilliam, Louisiana and the Old Plain Dealing Road.

An aero-trolley at Turner Falls, Oklahoma. This may have been the general idea of the proposed ferry over the Red River. Oklahoma.net In...

I have never seen Mansura, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, well-represented on any map prior to satellite data. But we can figure out why...

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...

The former elementary school in Humprheys, Jackson County, OK is a bit on the sunny side. Even though Jackson County (Oklahoma) is home...

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

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

The old story of the “Arkansas Traveler” tells of a person coming through the backwoods of Arkansas and happening upon a house. The...

New Orleans awakened a creative hunger in me. I just felt like sharing this feeling. Ignore as you wish! I gained an idea in a town I...

A while back, I posited three of Dallas’ greatest places to visit… according to my biased, unasked-for opinion, anyway. Woe is me if I...

I turned yet another year older this month (just a decade past 29), and, like I do every birthday, I did some soul searching. I’m...

I think I mentioned this before, but if I haven’t, well… I hunt ghost towns. I’d like to do that for a living, but there’s not much money...