Mudgett aka Holmes aka Lyman aka Pratt, the builder of the Murder Castle in Fort Worth, was executed by hanging in 1896.

Why was there an outrage about this map that landed in the newspapers?

Marion Post (later, Marion Post Wolcott) was the first photographer to document the Cane River Creole culture of Louisiana.

Calera (Bryan County, Choctaw Nation, Oklahoma) began life as Cale Switch in 1872.

The U.S. Army was instrumental in the slaughter of bison to destroy the Plains tribes.

The Caddo Nation mined salt for over eight hundred years, and this activity remained an Arkansas industry into the 19th century.

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

The life of Polly Ann Colbert, a Chickasaw Free Woman, is a history lesson of Indian Territory.

Today, Grand Ecore is referred to mainly as a geological feature, but there is a TON of human history on this bluff.

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.

Sykes (Sikes) Ferry Road passing over Dorcheat Bayou north of Minden in central Webster Parish, Louisiana.

When the capitol of Louisiana faced Union Control and Reconstruction during the Civil War, western Louisiana descended into lawlessness.

The re-taking of forts in Indian Territory was one minor focus of Grant's Vicksburg campaign in the Civil War.

The people in Southwestern Arkansas before the Civil War were much more populist and had a strong free-soil expansionist base.

The bones of the Natchez warriorss could be seen there years afterwards at Lake Sang pour Sang — "Blood for Blood."

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.