The western valley especially testified to this internal refugee crisis.

A Rare Map of Oklahoma from 1892 shows towns, trails, districts, counties, and more.

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

The King of Trails took travelers from Kansas to the Gulf Coast of Texas.

A map showing the stagecoach route through Pilot Grove (Grayson County, Texas) in 1865.

In 1852, Captain Marcy and George B. McClellan were tasked to document the source of the Red River.

The relationship between Gainesville, Texas and Indian Territory as explained by the Chickasaw Hotel.

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

Mound City in Red River County, Texas once welcomed steamboats in the 1870s

Randolph B. Marcy was not impressed by the people who lived in the Red River Valley.

Jim Turner, a steam boat, sunk at Albion on the Red River in 1854.

Red River Station in Montague County, Texas is a ghost of the cattle trail driving past.

Draughon's Business Colleges private offered a "no-frills education without sports teams, commencement, and other distractions."

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.

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

In 1919, the U.S. government authorized a Military Motor Convoy to traverse the Bankhead Highway.

Jack Loftin, the remarkable man who wrote, created, and repaired the stone monuments, proved to be a true history machine.

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

Map fro the 28th Congressional Session, 1848, of distances between federal outposts in the American Southwest (LOC). The published...