When the capitol of Louisiana faced Union Control and Reconstruction during the Civil War, western Louisiana descended into lawlessness.

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

The people in Southwestern Arkansas before the Civil War were much more populist and had a strong free-soil expansionist base.

Top o' Hill Terrace was one the biggest gambling halls, bordellos, and speakeasies in the Southwest.

Architecture was coded and uniform to be efficient in their builds, even the places that we now view as one-of-a-kind quaintness.

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.

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

Fort Griffin marked the boundary line ("the frontier") between Native American lands and white settlement ("civilization").

Fort Phantom Hill centered a small town of the same name in the 1880s, where the main source of income derived from buffalo slaughter.

Fort Belknap became an important trading hub for Anglo settlement into the Comanceria.

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.

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.

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 Kiowas of the Oklahoma Plains created a unique horse and buffalo hunting culture.