The Red River Valley in Arkansas is at the Great Bend Region.

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.

The upper portion of this 1840 map by General Cooke of Grayson and Fannin counties shows a number of places that no longer exist

Red River Station in Montague County, Texas is a ghost of the cattle trail driving past.

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

When you take into the account the vast volumes of literature that American historians have produced over the last two centuries, what...