What may be the final photo of the ferry at Fulton, Hempstead County, Arkansas which crossed the Red River just below the Great Bend.

Between 1809 and 1819, a young American named Henry Ker traveled up the Red River from its mouth to its far western reaches search of gold.

The only available photographic documentation of an execution carried out by the Choctaw Nation's Lighthorsemen.

One of my favorite maps of the Red River is Nicolas de Fer's illustrated map published in France in 1718.

A map from 1872 details some original cattle trails that ran through Texas after the Civil War.

The photos of hotels in Clarksville from 1885 are from an archive that is no longer available.

Decommissioned in 1926, the Gardie Eastman may well have been the last steamboat to traverse the entirety of the Red River.

I was pleasantly surprised to recognize that the Jefferson to Shreveport Waterway still exists as Twelve Mile Bayou.

Bianca Babb was seven years old when she was abducted by Comanches after her mother was killed in a raid.

Fort Lynn was a lumber town in southwest Arkansas surrounded by several logging camps.

The Pawnee/ Wichita village that George Catlin sketched was abandoned by the 1860s.

At the turn of the 20th century, the Army Corps of Engineers dredged the Trinity River and built locks and dams south of Dallas.

Near Marksville, Louisiana sit 2,500 year old, human constructed mounds... ancient, earthen pyramids. They've been abandoned once again.

The "Willis Bridge" now connects Oklahoma to Texas over Lake Texoma along US 377.

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

Mudgett aka Holmes aka Lyman aka Pratt, the builder of the Murder Castle in Fort Worth, was executed by hanging in 1896.

Why was there an outrage about this map that landed in the newspapers?

Marion Post (later, Marion Post Wolcott) was the first photographer to document the Cane River Creole culture of Louisiana.

Calera (Bryan County, Choctaw Nation, Oklahoma) began life as Cale Switch in 1872.

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