In 1852, Captain Marcy and George B. McClellan were tasked to document the source of the Red River.

This 1865 map by Helmuth Holtz depicts the Great Bend Region of the Red River.

Mound City in Red River County, Texas once welcomed steamboats in the 1870s

The Natchez settlement that was destroyed by French troops and Choctaw, Houma, and Tunica allies in the early 1730s.

Shreve's Cut of the Mississippi River led to engineering the Red and Atchafalaya Rivers, and the victim was Red River Landing.

Let me bore you to sleep by telling you about the history of pavement on early Dallas roads!

Lafayette and Lost Prairie in Arkansas were built by slave labor and washed away by the Red River.

A rare, hand-drawn map of southwestern Arkansas during the Civil War.

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

In 1919, the U.S. government authorized a Military Motor Convoy to traverse the Bankhead Highway.

The published account of the 28th Congressional Session in 1843 included a number of maps and drawings. These visuals helped to...

Map fro the 28th Congressional Session, 1848, of distances between federal outposts in the American Southwest (LOC). The published...

I have never seen Mansura, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, well-represented on any map prior to satellite data. But we can figure out why...

The Red River Valley above Fulton/ Clarksville / Fort Towson was not fully mapped until after the Civil War. The first regional mapping...

Texas likes that it's big, and between 1860 and 1894, it was actually a million and a half acres larger than it is today. That's because...

Pedro Vial's map of the "Great Spanish Road" began in Natchitoches and passed by homes and ranches of traders/planters

One of the least studied but major trade arteries emanating from the Red River was the so-called "Great Spanish Road."

Josiah Gregg's trading path became the "Gold Road" for German immigrants.

Founded in 1867, Fort Griffin (Shackleford County, Texas) is now a state historic site.

Since 1880s at least, and most likely at least two decades prior, the corner of State/ East Fourth/ Sam Rayburn and North Chestnut...