Coates' Bluff was Shreveport's original settlement, the site of a trading post within a Caddoan village.

I found two other maps of Texas, both from the period after Texas statehood (1845), that shows Warren's trading posts.

Pressler's 1867 shows Warren's Trading House sandwiched between Panther and Salt Creek (TX), and near Red Creek (OK), but not on Mud Creek.

Along Cherry Street in downtown Sherman is an interesting ruin behind the 1888 Cottonbelt railroad depot.

The electric interurban railway systems connected cities along the region designated as "North Texas."

Several years ago, I took a road trip and found myself at Indian City, USA. I'm glad I did, because Indian City, USA is no more.

Whenever I saw Locke's Tin Shop in downtown Sherman, I thought it the prettiest building I'd ever seen.

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.

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.

If you search "Cash Point" in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, on a map today, you'd find RV Park bearing the name, and not much else.

Medicine Mound is southwest of Chillicothe in Hardeman County, Texas along what was once the Kansas, Mexico & Orient Railway.

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

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