The Kiowas of the Oklahoma Plains created a unique horse and buffalo hunting culture.

The academies established by the Choctaws and Chickasaws in Indian Territory were mission schools.

The Osage Nation claims to have held territory from the Ohio to the Red River Valley of the South.

The Comancheria — the Comanche Empire — became a formidable force for both the Europeans and Anglo American colonizers.

The Choctaw Nation was the first of the "five civilized tribes" to face removal into Indian Territory.

The Rock Bluff Ferry of Love County, Oklahoma: a Tale of Three Ferries!

The Great Western Trail was the last great northern cattle trail.

The Shawnee Trail is also known as Preston Road or Texas Trail or Military Road or Emigrant Trail.

The Chisholm Trail was mostly known as the Abilene Cattle Trail through Indian Territory.

The Trail of Tears for the Choctaws ended at a little place called Ultima Thule, and the beginning of their new home was Eagletown.

Brown's Spring in Love County, Oklahoma is a natural spring about 200 yards from the Red River.

The Wichitas were the people of the Cross Timbers.

The Butterfield Overland Mail Route was the first transcontinental road in the United States.

Before it ferried cars across, Carpenter's Bluff bridge served as a train crossing.

A wreck in the Red River is an archeological site.

By the late 1830s, Boggy Depot centered the Choctaw/ Chickasaw Nation.

There was the once-large town of Gotebo, Oklahoma.

Roosevelt has disproportionately more cars than it does humans, but the cars are what keep the humans in Roosevelt.

Tatums in Carter County, Oklahoma was an all-black town that enjoyed a brief oil boom.

Doaksville in Choctaw County, Oklahoma is now a ghost town but was once a very important place.