In this serial continuation, I'm focusing on his map of Louisiana and Arkansas from 1864, particularly the Shreveport area.

Today, O'Rourke Canal (Slough) in northwestern Louisiana, a historical remnant of the Great Raft, is just a small ditch.

Maps are great snapshots of contemporary viewpoints that depict past, present, and potential futures, and this is definitely true for maps that depict the Republic of Texas.

Americans identified and described a Panis village at the Red River that was not necessarily Pawnee.

Enjoying the history of Burkburnett's "Oil Pool" using Lidar!

The mouth of the Red River was at a place that no longer exists: Red River Landing in Pointe Coupee Parish.

This map is a detailed representation of the geopolitical situation at the beginning of the Seven Years War (1756 to 1763), a conflict also called the "French Indian War" in the United States.

A map from 1835 shows Cameron's Grant and a proposed boundary line, both at the Red River, and both unsuccessful.

In maps of the United States/Texas/North America between 1820 and 1825, I noticed a place along the Red River in former Miller County, Arkansas Territory called "Williams Settlement." I began a search that took me into the aftermath of a major earthquake.

Color your own power maps from 1601 and 1478!

Hickory Creek in Denton County, Texas may be named for Hickory, a much older settlement that history has forgotten.

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

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

What are these "earth pimples" (acne!) as some researchers have described the circular mounds that appear in all over the Red River Valley?

For Thomas Jefferson, the most important Corps of Discovery in the Louisiana Purchase was the expedition up the Red River of 1806.

In 1805, Dr. Sibley took the testimony of Francis Grappe about French settlements along the Red River in New Orleans Territory.

he Western Interior Seaway of the Mesozoic Era is the reason that the Red River Valley of the South is extremely rich in fossils.

Two maps of the Missouri Territory were either made with a time machine, or one of them is a wee bit older.

A 1656 map shows villages like Naguatex, which were described in the 1557 book, Gentleman of Elvas, about the de Soto expedition.

The northwestern portions of the Ozark Trail were subsumed by the federal highway project designated as US 66, aka the original Route 66.