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

While in Fort Worth upon her capture in 1860, Cynthia Ann Parker's first photograph was taken while she nursed her daughter.

The Red River Valley in Arkansas is at the Great Bend Region.

The Comancheria — the Comanche Empire — became a formidable force for both the Europeans and Anglo American colonizers.

Bonnie and Clyde met in West Dallas, a place that defined them and their deeds.

Psychopath Cullen Baker's despicable Reconstruction-era crimes in the Red River Valley make him a mass-murderer.

Four major tribes — the Red River Originals — inhabited the Red River Valley of the Southwest before and during European invasion.

The Shawnee Trail is also known as Preston Road or Texas Trail or Military Road or Emigrant Trail.

The Chisholm Trail was mostly known as the Abilene Cattle Trail through Indian Territory.

Bonnie Parker's funeral director lived and worked above the funeral home. He had to move into the Adolphus Hotel, however. Why?

The Wichitas were the people of the Cross Timbers.

The Butterfield Overland Mail Route was the first transcontinental road in the United States.

A wreck in the Red River is an archeological site.

There was the once-large town of Gotebo, Oklahoma.

Roosevelt has disproportionately more cars than it does humans, but the cars are what keep the humans in Roosevelt.

Doaksville in Choctaw County, Oklahoma is now a ghost town but was once a very important place.

Preston was founded by Holland Coffee, and yes, that was his real name.

The old town of Washington, Arkansas was once the biggest town in the Southwest.

Fulton grew up along the Great Bend of the Red River but is no longer growing.

San Calixto in the Wichita Mountains - the Sierra Jumanos - was probably the base for gold prospecting after it failed as a mission in 1629.