Colbert's hotel stood above his ferry, which once was replaced by a bridge in 1875 that the Red River promptly washed away.

After his 1772 visit to Taovaya at the Red River, Athanase De Mézières preferred the villages over Natchitoches.

The Van Dorn Trail led to a massacre and subsequently became a Trail of Tears for the Plains Indians.

Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped and adopted into a Comanche family, who renamed her Narua (foundling) in 1836.

Eagletown was settled within a decade of the Louisiana Purchase and was originally a station on the Choctaw Trail of Tears.

Camp Augur in today’s Tillman County, Oklahoma was founded in 1871 to protect the tribes impacted by the Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867.

Fort Towson in today’s Choctaw County, was established in 1824.

A geological map of coal claims in the "Coal Country" around Coalgate, Coal County, Indian Territory (Oklahoma) from ca. 1900.

Comanche women in Mow-wi camp at Palo Duro Canyon during the Red River War.