Basin Springs, Steedman aka Hagerman, and Cedar Mills and were drowned by Lake Texoma.

In 1868, a battle between native Plains warriors and American settlers took place at White Creek where Cooke, Denton and Wise counties meet.

One of the most historic places in Grayson County, Texas is Waterloo Lake in Denison, fed by Sand Springs, a natural watering hole.

The Cross Timbers is well defined on this 1844 map by Josiah Gregg.

The Pawnee/ Wichita village that George Catlin sketched was abandoned by the 1860s.

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.

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

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

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

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

Fort Washita's main purpose was to protect Chickasaw and Choctaw settlers from the Plains Indians and Anglo "land smugglers."

Fort Arbuckle was founded by Randolph B. Marcy in 1851 as a Chickasaw Nation garrison.

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

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

The Wichitas were the people of the Cross Timbers.

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

The purpose of Camp Howze in Gainesville, Texas was to train infantry for activation during World War II.

Randolph B. Marcy and Black Beaver built trails all along the Red River Valley.

Jack Loftin, the remarkable man who wrote, created, and repaired the stone monuments, proved to be a true history machine.