This Belgian Map from 1825 of the Red River of the South leaves more questions than answers.

An unpublished and undated engineer's report details a plan to connect McKinney to Paris with an interurban railway.

The Louisiana Purchase gave way to five territories along the Red River. Here are links to some of the congressional papers.

Until the 1830s, the Disputed Territory along the Red River, where Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana meet, was a "no man's land."