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

A Peace Treaty that wasn't supposed to be peaceful was signed by the tribes southern Indian Territory at Camp Napoleon in May 1865.

A Hamlet-Style Transaction between Tishomingo of the Chickasaws and the Choctaws, as related by a French writer in 1749.

Two maps of the rapids at Alexandria during the Civil War reside in the Library of Congress.

The U.S. Army was instrumental in the slaughter of bison to destroy the Plains tribes.

When the capitol of Louisiana faced Union Control and Reconstruction during the Civil War, western Louisiana descended into lawlessness.

The re-taking of forts in Indian Territory was one minor focus of Grant's Vicksburg campaign in the Civil War.

The people in Southwestern Arkansas before the Civil War were much more populist and had a strong free-soil expansionist base.

The bones of the Natchez warriorss could be seen there years afterwards at Lake Sang pour Sang — "Blood for Blood."

Newspaper articles report on the same event: the Great Hanging in Gainesville, as well as other murders that took place in North Texas

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

Sgt. Roy Speake died early in the morning on D-Day, June 6, 1944 during the invasion of Normandy, and is now buried in Cooke County, Texas.

Leon Hinds, Band of Brothers Grave

The purpose of Camp Howze in Gainesville, Texas was to train infantry for activation during World War II.

A rare, hand-drawn map of southwestern Arkansas during the Civil War.

In 1937, George Conrad, a former Buffalo Soldier, was interviewed by the WPA's Federal Writer's Project.

Every Veteran's Day - aka Armistice Day - I like to post about a Great War (WWI) veteran because these men hoped that this was the "war...

This wire sent from Denison in April of 1873 reported an Indian raid that never happened. This article was cited widely in multiple...

Camp Augur in today’s Tillman County, Oklahoma was founded in 1871 to protect the tribes impacted by the Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867.

Nathan Banks, Union general, left a relic of the Red River Campaign at Bailey's Dam in Alexandria, Louisiana.