The "Old Southwest," which is dominated by the Red River, is a political rather than a cultural designation.

In October of 2023, I lost hearing in my left year. No big deal, I thought, because my right ear more than made up for the loss, and I...

Is this a railroad or a wagon bridge at Colbert's bridge across the Red River?

This photograph depicts "part of Satanta's Kiowa Band at Sutler's Store, Fort Sill, Indian Territory" by either Soule or Bliss.

In 1929, the U.S. legislature wanted to eliminate toll bridges across the Red River (and other places) due to scandalous behavior.

The Caddo structures were so numerous that Europeans who came to the Red River labeled southwestern Arkansas "Mound City."

Evidence of the Caddo City of the Dead along Ozan Creek at Washington, Hempstead County, Arkansas has been almost entirely eliminated.

Ozan in Hempstead County, Arkansas is a true City of the Dead, a place that connected to the Battle Mound village along the Red River.

Basin Springs, Steedman aka Hagerman, and Cedar Mills and were drowned by Lake Texoma.

Recovering the dead from the Little Bolen Coal Mine aka Old Town Mine after an explosion in McAlester, Oklahoma in 1929.

This 1824 German map of Arkansas Territory is a lot more illuminating than many others from the same period I've encountered.

Zebulon Pike's journey to the Red River was beset with problems and intrigue.

Muriel Wright and Chester Howe explained different versions of how the state of Oklahoma achieved its name.

In 1868, a battle between native Plains warriors and American settlers took place at White Creek where Cooke, Denton and Wise counties meet.

A new Oklahoma county named Swanson would boast Mountain Park as its temporary county seat in 1910-1911.

The Red River is a shifty river, but that's not meant as an insult.

From 1893 to 1920, Rainy Mountain Indian School "Americanized" children from the Kiowa and Apache tribes, and now lies as an unmarked ruin.

Sanborn Maps from the 1880s tell me that the burning building was the Crockett Hotel in Bonham, Texas.

Wegefarth County was platted and promoted in 1873 to white homesteaders to push out native people.

One of the most historic places in Grayson County, Texas is Waterloo Lake in Denison, fed by Sand Springs, a natural watering hole.