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

Stephen F. Austin traced a Mexican map of the Province of Texas from 1818 and painted it with water colors.

This Province of Texas map by Mexico was drawn and colored in 1818.

A 1721 map places the Yattassee village (spelled Yatachez) on the eastern side of the Red River.

De la Harpe and his men built a wooden trading post at the "abandoned village of the Nassonite chief."

The conflict between the American new-comers and the "old inhabitants" could be seen with the establishment of Fort Claiborne.

Fort Jesup, erected in 1822 along the Camino de Real (Spanish Road) replaced Fort Claiborne of 1804.

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

The Theft of the Red River Medicine Stone, a giant meteorite, may have deeply affected relations between nations in the Red River Valley.

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

The original homelands of the Caddos consist of the Red River Valley from southeastern Oklahoma to Natchitoches, Louisiana.

The French and Creole City of Natchitoches is the oldest colonial city in the Louisiana Purchase.

Fort Los Adaes near Robeline, Louisiana was once the capital of Spanish Texas.

The village of Natchitoches welcomed Fort St. Jean Baptiste in the early 18th century.

San Calixto in the Wichita Mountains - the Sierra Jumanos - was probably the base for gold prospecting after it failed as a mission in 1629.

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

Colony, Washita County, Oklahoma was home to Seeger Indian Industrial School and the Dutch Reformed Church mission.

After his 1772 visit to Taovaya at the Red River, Athanase De Mézières preferred the villages over Natchitoches.

In 1936, the Chicken War of 1719 was inadvertently commemorated.

A description of the fur trade in Louisiana during the French colonial era.