Annotated editorial from the Chicago Tribune to provide some context about slavery in the Choctaw Nation.

The Chickasaws witnessed a land and genealogical invasion by Texans in the early 20th century.

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.

Colbert's hotel stood above his ferry, which once was replaced by a bridge in 1875 that the Red River promptly washed away.

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

Randolph B. Marcy and Black Beaver built trails all along the Red River Valley.

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

The Van Dorn Trail led to a massacre and subsequently became a Trail of Tears for the Plains Indians.

Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped and adopted into a Comanche family, who renamed her Narua (foundling) in 1836.

Eagletown was settled within a decade of the Louisiana Purchase and was originally a station on the Choctaw Trail of Tears.

The Oklahoma Historical Society has an unbelievable amount of photographs that only occasionally see the light of day. Their photos,...

Texas likes that it's big, and between 1860 and 1894, it was actually a million and a half acres larger than it is today. That's because...

Founded in 1867, Fort Griffin (Shackleford County, Texas) is now a state historic site.

Every Veteran's Day - aka Armistice Day - I like to post about a Great War (WWI) veteran because these men hoped that this was the "war...

Sometime in the 1990s, the federal program called Historic Buildings Survey (HABS) documented the Coincoin- Prudhomme home along the Cane...

In 1834, George Catlin accompanied the first dragoon expedition, helmed by Generals Henry Dodge and Henry Leavenworth, from Kansas into...

Muriel Wright documented Boggy Depot well.

In the 1890s, these unnamed men from Montague County, Texas posed for a photograph after filing claims against the U.S. government for...

Camp Augur in today’s Tillman County, Oklahoma was founded in 1871 to protect the tribes impacted by the Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867.