After the Battle of Village Creek, the Republic of Texas signed the Fort Bird Treaty of 1842.

A Peace Treaty that wasn't supposed to be peaceful was signed by the tribes southern Indian Territory at Camp Napoleon in May 1865.

In 1868, a battle between native Plains warriors and American settlers took place at White Creek where Cooke, Denton and Wise counties meet.

Bianca Babb was seven years old when she was abducted by Comanches after her mother was killed in a raid.

Two maps of the rapids at Alexandria during the Civil War reside in the Library of Congress.

Sophia Suttenfield Aughinbaugh Coffee Butt Porter was one of the more colorful characters to inhabit the Red River Valley.

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.

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.

Sgt. Roy Speake died early in the morning on D-Day, June 6, 1944 during the invasion of Normandy, and is now buried in Cooke County, Texas.

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 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.

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

One of the more fascinating cultures of the original Red River Valley people are the Tonkawas, a very distinct Texas tribe.

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