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

This 1865 map by Helmuth Holtz depicts the Great Bend Region of the Red River.

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

The relationship between Gainesville, Texas and Indian Territory as explained by the Chickasaw Hotel.

The Chickasaws witnessed a land and genealogical invasion by Texans in the early 20th century.

Red River Station in Montague County, Texas is a ghost of the cattle trail driving past.

Draughon's Business Colleges private offered a "no-frills education without sports teams, commencement, and other distractions."

Colony, Washita County, Oklahoma was home to Seeger Indian Industrial School and the Dutch Reformed Church mission.

Bill Dalton of the infamous "Dalton Gang" was born in Missouri in 1865 and died near Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma in 1894.

A description of the fur trade in Louisiana during the French colonial era.

The Van Dorn Trail led to a massacre and subsequently became a Trail of Tears for the Plains Indians.

In 1919, the U.S. government authorized a Military Motor Convoy to traverse the Bankhead Highway.

The published account of the 28th Congressional Session in 1843 included a number of maps and drawings. These visuals helped to...

Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped and adopted into a Comanche family, who renamed her Narua (foundling) in 1836.

If you counted yourself among the fashionable pioneer set, a MUST-DO was to cross into Indian Territory by way of the Doan's Store.

One of the easiest ways to spot a ghost town is to follow abandoned railroad lines. When the companies were building their right-of-ways...

Eagletown was settled within a decade of the Louisiana Purchase and was originally a station on the Choctaw Trail of Tears.

Map fro the 28th Congressional Session, 1848, of distances between federal outposts in the American Southwest (LOC). The published...

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

Texas likes that it's big, and between 1860 and 1894, it was actually a million and a half acres larger than it is today. That's because...