I found a couple of 1872 sketches of the “Red River” by Alfred Rudolph Waud. Waud was an English illustrator who worked in the last half...

There is nothing nicer than finding that a WPA built stadium is still in use, like the sturdy, stone arena in Hugo, Choctaw County,...

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

Paddle wheeler “Amy Hewes” on the Red River (no date), but most likely this picture was taken in the 1940s. The “Amy Hewes” was built in...

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...

The northern portion of John Pope’s 1854 map to survey a possible transcontinental route through Texas marks the Cross Timbers between...

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

Fort Towson in today’s Choctaw County, was established in 1824.

French map from 1754 (Library of Congress) Did you know that the now- states of Arkansas and Louisiana once bordered Georgia, North, and...

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

Nathan Banks, Union general, left a relic of the Red River Campaign at Bailey's Dam in Alexandria, Louisiana.

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

Along a county road in Jackson County, Oklahoma, lies the lonesome grave of Joel Moseley, 1846-1890. Mr. Moseley was born in Georgia and,...

Boggy Depot Plan numbers Depot Muriel Wright 1927 1. Gov. Allen Wright’s residence. 2. John. Kingsbury residence. 3. House built by Mr....

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

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...

Lots of the pictures I post on my website, www.redriverhistorian.com, tend to be of ruins – disused buildings and such – and sometimes,...