This Province of Texas map by Mexico was drawn and colored in 1818.

A 1721 map places the Yattassee village (spelled Yatachez) on the eastern side of the Red River.

De la Harpe and his men built a wooden trading post at the "abandoned village of the Nassonite chief."

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.

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

The original homelands of the Caddos consist of the Red River Valley from southeastern Oklahoma to Natchitoches, Louisiana.

The French and Creole City of Natchitoches is the oldest colonial city in the Louisiana Purchase.

Fort Los Adaes near Robeline, Louisiana was once the capital of Spanish Texas.

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

The Natchez settlement that was destroyed by French troops and Choctaw, Houma, and Tunica allies in the early 1730s.

After his 1772 visit to Taovaya at the Red River, Athanase De Mézières preferred the villages over Natchitoches.

In 1936, the Chicken War of 1719 was inadvertently commemorated.

A description of the fur trade in Louisiana during the French colonial era.

Pedro Vial's map of the "Great Spanish Road" began in Natchitoches and passed by homes and ranches of traders/planters

One of the least studied but major trade arteries emanating from the Red River was the so-called "Great Spanish Road."

Sometime in the 1990s, the federal program called Historic Buildings Survey (HABS) documented the Coincoin- Prudhomme home along the Cane...

One settlement along this path that interests me is at the western end of the road on this map - Chichi.

The map by Jean Baptist Franquelin, printed in Paris (France) in 1684, is a facsimile of the original that has been lost. It now resides...