Sophia Suttenfield Aughinbaugh Coffee Butt Porter was one of the more colorful characters to inhabit the Red River Valley.

In 1931, the toll bridge at the former Sacra's Ferry site across from Brown Springs closed for good in favor of a free bridge a upstream.

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

Newspaper articles report on the same event: the Great Hanging in Gainesville, as well as other murders that took place in North Texas

While its neighbors suffered in stopping the Union armies from entering, North Texas itself left the Civil War relatively unscathed.

Top o' Hill Terrace was one the biggest gambling halls, bordellos, and speakeasies in the Southwest.

The most notorious brothel in Denison was Brown Front, named so because it, well, had an unpainted wooden front that was none too pretty.

The courthouse once left an imposing impression on those plying their trades in old Hell's Half Acre, Fort Worth's red light district.

Dallas boasted several vice districts: Boggy Bayou, Deep Ellum, the Reservation, West Dallas, and Commerce Street.

Most of the buildings that lie inside Fair Park in Dallas today are landmarks built purposefully for the 1936 Centennial Exposition.

The Simonds Precinct cemetery is known called to its families as "Sand Branch."

Sgt. Roy Speake died early in the morning on D-Day, June 6, 1944 during the invasion of Normandy, and is now buried in Cooke County, Texas.

Paris, Texas has several inactive, old cemeteries within its city limits.

Much of the brick used in building Bonham (Fannin County, Texas) was fired in the kilns owned by Jerry Chinner, a Freeman.

The MKT made Denison a very important railroad city after the Civil War.

More than any other fort at or near the Red River Valley, Fort Richardson embodies American Indian reservation policy.

Fort Griffin marked the boundary line ("the frontier") between Native American lands and white settlement ("civilization").

Fort Phantom Hill centered a small town of the same name in the 1880s, where the main source of income derived from buffalo slaughter.

Fort Belknap became an important trading hub for Anglo settlement into the Comanceria.

Randolph B. Marcy, who knew Texas and Indian Territory well, was tasked to lead an expedition to document the Red River in 1852.