Gloster became a functioning place only after the Texas & Pacific trains came through

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

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

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.

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.

In 1887 W.B. Wise of Paris, Lamar County, Texas decided to show off his wealth by building a Queen Anne style home.

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

The Index Bridge over the Red River between Texas and Arkansas was once a beautiful structure.

Was Cane River in Natchitoches really once the Red River?

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

n 1940, photographer Marion Wolcott of the Works Progress Administration visited Natchitoches, Louisiana along the Cane River.

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

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

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

The Natchez settlement that was destroyed by French troops and Choctaw, Houma, and Tunica allies in the early 1730s.

In 1887, O.L. Coleman opened a school for African American children in Gibsland, Louisiana.

I became good friends with some curious cows as I visited the remains of the former Fairview School, Greer County, Oklahoma.

Leon Hinds, Band of Brothers Grave