Newspaper articles report on the same event: the Great Hanging in Gainesville, as well as other murders that took place in North Texas

While its neighbors suffered in stopping the Union armies from entering, North Texas itself left the Civil War relatively unscathed.

This report by Captain Henry Shreve explains that the Red River Raft removal is complete. Kinda.

The Peru Ferry near Gilliam served passengers and oil field traffic between Gilliam, Louisiana and the Old Plain Dealing Road.

The MKT made Denison a very important railroad city after the Civil War.

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

More than any other fort at or near the Red River Valley, Fort Richardson embodies American Indian reservation policy.

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

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.

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

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

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.

US 80, formerly known as the Dixie Overland Highway, merges with the Bankhead Highway and is the mother road of the Red River Valley.

The Good Roads Movement was the brainchild of two inventions: the Safety Bicycle and the Automobile.

The Colfax Massacre along the Red River was the most violent episode in Reconstruction Louisiana.

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

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

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

The Great Raft of the Red River: A Massive Log Jam with its own Eco System