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

Wavell's Grant was the second empressario granted by Mexcio for Texas, but there were already illegal squatters.

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

Records by the Freedmen's Bureau from the Red River Valley describe horrors.

The Trail of Tears for the Choctaws ended at a little place called Ultima Thule, and the beginning of their new home was Eagletown.

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.

The Index Bridge over the Red River between Texas and Arkansas was once a beautiful structure.

The Sale and Murphy Canal along the Red River once linked Louisiana and Arkansas around the upper portions of the Great Raft.

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

let me bore you to sleep by telling you about the history of pavement on early Dallas roads!

Lafayette and Lost Prairie in Arkansas were built by slave labor and washed away by the Red River.

A rare, hand-drawn map of southwestern Arkansas during the Civil War.

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

The Blevins Training School was a high school during the era of segregation in Hempstead County, Arkansas.

In the 1820s, the Blevins family built a primitive, two story cabin without the use of nails in today's Hempstead County, Arkansas.

In 1838, when the United States and the Republic of Texas surveyed the boundary between the countries along the Index Line (today's...

The Chihuahua Trail was a short-lived road blazed by merchants from Mexico and the U.S.

One of the oldest roads in the Red River Valley is the Southwest Trail in Arkansas.

In the US, death of history is frequent. I’m not talking about historical events today, even though they have their own share of death...