The Spring Bank ferry over the Red River was unique, as the Blanton family operated it for over a hundred years, from 1836 until 1957.

Garland City petitioned for a bridge over the Red River, but someone (still a mystery!) exploded it in 1930.

While at the Ouachita River, Bernard de la Harpe claimed to have eaten a unicorn.

A ticket reserved passage on the steam boat Relief, which paddled down the river from White Oak Shoals (Arkansas) to Natchitoches.

The Red River Valley witnessed racialist violence, based on whites deflecting, throughout the first half of the 20th century.

Wavell's Grant was the second empressario granted by Mexcio for Texas, but there were already illegal squatters.

The Red River Valley in Arkansas is at the Great Bend Region.

Records by the Freedmen's Bureau from the Red River Valley describe horrors.

The old town of Washington, Arkansas was once the biggest town in the Southwest.

Fulton grew up along the Great Bend of the Red River but is no longer growing.

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

Randolph B. Marcy was not impressed by the people who lived in the Red River Valley.

let me bore you to sleep by telling you about the history of pavement on early Dallas roads!

Lafayette and Lost Prairie in Arkansas were built by slave labor and washed away by the Red River.

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

The Blevins Training School was a high school during the era of segregation in Hempstead County, Arkansas.

In the 1820s, the Blevins family built a primitive, two story cabin without the use of nails in today's Hempstead County, Arkansas.

In 1838, when the United States and the Republic of Texas surveyed the boundary between the countries along the Index Line (today's...

Fort Towson in today’s Choctaw County, was established in 1824.

One of the oldest roads in the Red River Valley is the Southwest Trail in Arkansas.