Infamous bandit Machine Gun Kelley is buried here inside his wife Kathryn's family's plot in Wise County, Texas.

Stephen F. Austin traced a Mexican map of the Province of Texas from 1818 and painted it with water colors.

This Province of Texas map by Mexico was drawn and colored in 1818.

The Theft of the Red River Medicine Stone, a giant meteorite, may have deeply affected relations between nations in the Red River Valley.

US 80, formerly known as the Dixie Overland Highway, merges with the Bankhead Highway and is the mother road of the Red River Valley.

The old Boston Jail in New Boston, not to be confused with the original (Texas) Boston.

The Shawnees were originally from the Ohio River, not the Red River.

The Red River Valley witnessed racialist violence, based on whites deflecting, throughout the first half of the 20th century.

Wavell's Grant was the second empressario granted by Mexcio for Texas, but there were already illegal squatters.

One of the more fascinating cultures of the original Red River Valley people are the Tonkawas, a very distinct Texas tribe.

The Comancheria — the Comanche Empire — became a formidable force for both the Europeans and Anglo American colonizers.

The public lynching of Henry Smith in Paris, Texas in 1893 was detailed in a commemorative book by his murderers.

Bonnie and Clyde met in West Dallas, a place that defined them and their deeds.

Psychopath Cullen Baker's despicable Reconstruction-era crimes in the Red River Valley make him a mass-murderer.

Records by the Freedmen's Bureau from the Red River Valley describe horrors.

The Great Western Trail was the last great northern cattle trail.

The Shawnee Trail is also known as Preston Road or Texas Trail or Military Road or Emigrant Trail.

The Chisholm Trail was mostly known as the Abilene Cattle Trail through Indian Territory.

Brown's Spring in Love County, Oklahoma is a natural spring about 200 yards from the Red River.

Bonnie Parker's funeral director lived and worked above the funeral home. He had to move into the Adolphus Hotel, however. Why?