While its neighbors suffered in stopping the Union armies from entering, North Texas itself left the Civil War relatively unscathed.

This report by Captain Henry Shreve explains that the Red River Raft removal is complete. Kinda.

The Peru Ferry near Gilliam served passengers and oil field traffic between Gilliam, Louisiana and the Old Plain Dealing Road.

The MKT made Denison a very important railroad city after the Civil War.

Fort Sill represents the Old West and flourishes as the last remaining, active military post that was built during the Indian wars.

Randolph B. Marcy, who knew Texas and Indian Territory well, was tasked to lead an expedition to document the Red River in 1852.

Garland City petitioned for a bridge over the Red River, but someone (still a mystery!) exploded it in 1930.

While at the Ouachita River, Bernard de la Harpe claimed to have eaten a unicorn.

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

US 80, formerly known as the Dixie Overland Highway, merges with the Bankhead Highway and is the mother road of the Red River Valley.

A ticket reserved passage on the steam boat Relief, which paddled down the river from White Oak Shoals (Arkansas) to Natchitoches.

The Shawnees were originally from the Ohio River, not the Red River.

The Red River Valley witnessed racialist violence, based on whites deflecting, throughout the first half of the 20th century.

The Great Raft of the Red River: A Massive Log Jam with its own Eco System

The Red River Valley in Arkansas is at the Great Bend Region.

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 public lynching of Henry Smith in Paris, Texas in 1893 was detailed in a commemorative book by his murderers.

Psychopath Cullen Baker's despicable Reconstruction-era crimes in the Red River Valley make him a mass-murderer.

Records by the Freedmen's Bureau from the Red River Valley describe horrors.