Four major tribes — the Red River Originals — inhabited the Red River Valley of the Southwest before and during European invasion.

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

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

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.

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

Preston was founded by Holland Coffee, and yes, that was his real name.

Fulton grew up along the Great Bend of the Red River but is no longer growing.

An announcement of a stern wheeler going to Beal's Landing in Fannin County.

The toll bridge at Sowell's Bluff at the Red River, between Fannin County, Texas and Bryan County, Oklahoma collapsed in 1934.

Annotated editorial from the Chicago Tribune to provide some context about slavery in the Choctaw Nation.

"The devastating 1908 flood's effect on the "Frisco Bridge - Warner Junction - Red River Flood. May 26th '08."

In 1852, Captain Marcy and George B. McClellan were tasked to document the source of the Red River.

The toll bridge at Colbert was the site of the Red River Bridge "war."

Was Cane River in Natchitoches really once the Red River?

The Sale and Murphy Canal along the Red River once linked Louisiana and Arkansas around the upper portions of the Great Raft.

Mound City in Red River County, Texas once welcomed steamboats in the 1870s

The construction of Denison Dam restricted accessing between Texas and Oklahoma. Bring on the ferry!

Shreve's Cut of the Mississippi River led to engineering the Red and Atchafalaya Rivers, and the victim was Red River Landing.