In this serial continuation, I'm focusing on his map of Louisiana and Arkansas from 1864, particularly the Shreveport area.

he National Cattle Trail would be a two-mile-wide (on average), designated highway that would reach from Mexico to Canada to bring Texas cattle to markets up north.

Near the tiny settlement of Dye in Montague County, Texas, stands a 1,294 feet high "mound" called Jim Ned Lookout along Jim Ned Road. So I became curious... who was Jim Ned? Turns out, there were three Jims -- Jim Ned and Jim Shaw, both Delawares navigating their way through Texas, and Jim Ned, a literary figure.

Where's Frog Level, you ask? You may know it better as Rodessa, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, an oil boom town that went bust.

Enjoying the history of Burkburnett's "Oil Pool" using Lidar!

Texarkana started life before 1860 by way of the steam railroad and a steam packet boat.

The mouth of the Red River was at a place that no longer exists: Red River Landing in Pointe Coupee Parish.

A map from 1835 shows Cameron's Grant and a proposed boundary line, both at the Red River, and both unsuccessful.

The beautiful stone ditch that encompass little Stuart in Hughes County, Oklahoma, Choctaw Nation is a complete, and relatively intact, historic WPA project built to control malaria.

In maps of the United States/Texas/North America between 1820 and 1825, I noticed a place along the Red River in former Miller County, Arkansas Territory called "Williams Settlement." I began a search that took me into the aftermath of a major earthquake.

How the Interstate obliterated a vintage Shreveport scene of the De Fatta grocery store, shot gun shacks, and hot tamale vendors.

In 1995, a business consultant introduced "disruptive innovation" which has become, for people like us "destructive innovation" instead.

In the margins in historic newspapers, reports act as if random horrors of racism and misogyny are everyday things.

I'm here to rant that loop highways and bypasses are stupid ideas.

In his 1844 journal of his trading expeditions to Santa Fe, Josiah Gregg devoted at least four pages to the prairie dog.

The Louisiana Purchase gave way to five territories along the Red River. Here are links to some of the congressional papers.

Until the 1830s, the Disputed Territory along the Red River, where Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana meet, was a "no man's land."

From 1817 to 1822, the "Sulphur Fork Factory" stood at the confluence of the Sulphur into the Red River in today's Miller County, Arkansas.

After the Battle of Village Creek, the Republic of Texas signed the Fort Bird Treaty of 1842.

A lot of shenanigans and the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819 established the Red River as the southern boundary of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.