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.

St. Anne's Church in Natchitoches Parish may be the church with the oldest congregation in the state of Louisiana.

What are these "earth pimples" (acne!) as some researchers have described the circular mounds that appear in all over the Red River Valley?

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.

For Thomas Jefferson, the most important Corps of Discovery in the Louisiana Purchase was the expedition up the Red River of 1806.

In 1805, Dr. Sibley took the testimony of Francis Grappe about French settlements along the Red River in New Orleans Territory.

The census of Native People of New Orleans Territory included descriptions of tribal languages, places, and affiliations.

Burneyville's hotel was once a real beauty, but nothing remains of it.

In May 1899. a letter in a Denison newspaper appeared about a "new, thriving, up-to-date town" named Pancanula, Chickasaw Nation.

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

Discovery of an ancient village at Fish Creek, formerly a channel of the Red River in Cooke County, Texas, explains Cross Timbers people.

The Arlington Hotel in downtown Shreveport opened in 1914.

Photos by THC in the 1970s depict the Thompson House, Grayson County's oldest, still extant structure. Well, kind of.

he Western Interior Seaway of the Mesozoic Era is the reason that the Red River Valley of the South is extremely rich in fossils.

Campti lies in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, just up the road from the Grand Ecore.

S.A. Bolton explained living in a dugout in Harmon County, Oklahoma Territory to a WPA worker during the Great Depression.

Two maps of the Missouri Territory were either made with a time machine, or one of them is a wee bit older.

Today, the Louisiana Tower stands in the Tilly aka Phoenix aka Youree aka Washington-Youree aka Captain Shreve Hotel's Shreveport site.

The Peery Cemetery in Cooke County, Texas is endangered by the development of a 7-Eleven.