A Hamlet-Style Transaction between Tishomingo of the Chickasaws and the Choctaws, as related by a French writer in 1749.

Several years ago, I took a road trip and found myself at Indian City, USA. I'm glad I did, because Indian City, USA is no more.

This French map from 1783 combines European claims and native America.

The Caddo structures were so numerous that Europeans who came to the Red River labeled southwestern Arkansas "Mound City."

Evidence of the Caddo City of the Dead along Ozan Creek at Washington, Hempstead County, Arkansas has been almost entirely eliminated.

Ozan in Hempstead County, Arkansas is a true City of the Dead, a place that connected to the Battle Mound village along the Red River.

Muriel Wright and Chester Howe explained different versions of how the state of Oklahoma achieved its name.

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

Wegefarth County was platted and promoted in 1873 to white homesteaders to push out native people.

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.

Medicine Mound is southwest of Chillicothe in Hardeman County, Texas along what was once the Kansas, Mexico & Orient Railway.

The only available photographic documentation of an execution carried out by the Choctaw Nation's Lighthorsemen.

One of my favorite maps of the Red River is Nicolas de Fer's illustrated map published in France in 1718.

Bianca Babb was seven years old when she was abducted by Comanches after her mother was killed in a raid.

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

Near Marksville, Louisiana sit 2,500 year old, human constructed mounds... ancient, earthen pyramids. They've been abandoned once again.

Marion Post (later, Marion Post Wolcott) was the first photographer to document the Cane River Creole culture of Louisiana.

The U.S. Army was instrumental in the slaughter of bison to destroy the Plains tribes.

The Caddo Nation mined salt for over eight hundred years, and this activity remained an Arkansas industry into the 19th century.