More than any other fort at or near the Red River Valley, Fort Richardson embodies American Indian reservation policy.

Fort Griffin marked the boundary line ("the frontier") between Native American lands and white settlement ("civilization").

Fort Phantom Hill centered a small town of the same name in the 1880s, where the main source of income derived from buffalo slaughter.

Fort Belknap became an important trading hub for Anglo settlement into the Comanceria.

Fort Washita's main purpose was to protect Chickasaw and Choctaw settlers from the Plains Indians and Anglo "land smugglers."

Fort Arbuckle was founded by Randolph B. Marcy in 1851 as a Chickasaw Nation garrison.

The Theft of the Red River Medicine Stone, a giant meteorite, may have deeply affected relations between nations in the Red River Valley.

The old Boston Jail in New Boston, not to be confused with the original (Texas) Boston.

The French and Creole City of Natchitoches is the oldest colonial city in the Louisiana Purchase.

The village of Natchitoches welcomed Fort St. Jean Baptiste in the early 18th century.

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

The home of Charles DeMorse, publisher of the Northern Standard of the 1840s-1850, in Clarksville, Texas.

The old town of Washington, Arkansas was once the biggest town in the Southwest.

In 1887 W.B. Wise of Paris, Lamar County, Texas decided to show off his wealth by building a Queen Anne style home.

The Globe Building in Electra, Texas is now lost.

Wardville, Oklahoma is a ghost town but don't call it that.

The Coincoin-Prudhomme house along the Cane River in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana was documented by the Historic Buildings Survey in...

Jack Loftin, the remarkable man who wrote, created, and repaired the stone monuments, proved to be a true history machine.

The Oklahoma Historical Society has an unbelievable amount of photographs that only occasionally see the light of day. Their photos,...

Sometime in the 1990s, the federal program called Historic Buildings Survey (HABS) documented the Coincoin- Prudhomme home along the Cane...