In 1929, the U.S. legislature wanted to eliminate toll bridges across the Red River (and other places) due to scandalous behavior.

Recovering the dead from the Little Bolen Coal Mine aka Old Town Mine after an explosion in McAlester, Oklahoma in 1929.

Muriel Wright and Chester Howe explained different versions of how the state of Oklahoma achieved its name.

A new Oklahoma county named Swanson would boast Mountain Park as its temporary county seat in 1910-1911.

From 1893 to 1920, Rainy Mountain Indian School "Americanized" children from the Kiowa and Apache tribes, and now lies as an unmarked ruin.

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

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

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.

The life of Polly Ann Colbert, a Chickasaw Free Woman, is a history lesson of Indian Territory.

In 1931, the toll bridge at the former Sacra's Ferry site across from Brown Springs closed for good in favor of a free bridge a upstream.

The re-taking of forts in Indian Territory was one minor focus of Grant's Vicksburg campaign in the Civil War.

Hugo's Mount Olivet Cemetery is home to Showman's Rest section, where circus folk go to get buried.

Comanches received rations of food as well as monies to offset the loss of territory at Fort Supply.

Fort Sill represents the Old West and flourishes as the last remaining, active military post that was built during the Indian wars.

Fort Washita's main purpose was to protect Chickasaw and Choctaw settlers from the Plains Indians and Anglo "land smugglers."

Fort Arbuckle was founded by Randolph B. Marcy in 1851 as a Chickasaw Nation garrison.

Randolph B. Marcy, who knew Texas and Indian Territory well, was tasked to lead an expedition to document the Red River in 1852.

Establishing the Chickasaw Nation along the Red River proved to be a long ordeal.

The Shawnees were originally from the Ohio River, not the Red River.