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.

Bonnie Parker's funeral director lived and worked above the funeral home. He had to move into the Adolphus Hotel, however. Why?

The Wichitas were the people of the Cross Timbers.

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

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.

Spanish Fort in Montague County, Texas was originally a Taovayan village that spanned the Red River.

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

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

San Calixto in the Wichita Mountains - the Sierra Jumanos - was probably the base for gold prospecting after it failed as a mission in 1629.

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

The western valley especially testified to this internal refugee crisis.

A Rare Map of Oklahoma from 1892 shows towns, trails, districts, counties, and more.

The upper portion of this 1840 map by General Cooke of Grayson and Fannin counties shows a number of places that no longer exist

The King of Trails took travelers from Kansas to the Gulf Coast of Texas.

West of downtown Dallas was the settlement "La Reunion," founded by socialists in 1850s.

A map showing the stagecoach route through Pilot Grove (Grayson County, Texas) in 1865.