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

In 1931, the toll bridge at the former Sacra's Ferry site across from Brown Springs closed for good in favor of a free bridge a upstream.

The re-taking of forts in Indian Territory was one minor focus of Grant's Vicksburg campaign in the Civil War.

Newspaper articles report on the same event: the Great Hanging in Gainesville, as well as other murders that took place in North Texas

More than any other fort at or near the Red River Valley, Fort Richardson embodies American Indian reservation policy.

Fort Belknap became an important trading hub for Anglo settlement into the Comanceria.

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.

Randolph B. Marcy, who knew Texas and Indian Territory well, was tasked to lead an expedition to document the Red River in 1852.

The Theft of the Red River Medicine Stone, a giant meteorite, may have deeply affected relations between nations in the Red River Valley.

The Wichitas were the people of the Cross Timbers.

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

The purpose of Camp Howze in Gainesville, Texas was to train infantry for activation during World War II.

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

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

Josiah Gregg's trading path became the "Gold Road" for German immigrants.

In 1937, George Conrad, a former Buffalo Soldier, was interviewed by the WPA's Federal Writer's Project.

Along a county road in Jackson County, Oklahoma, lies the lonesome grave of Joel Moseley, 1846-1890. Mr. Moseley was born in Georgia and,...

In the 1890s, these unnamed men from Montague County, Texas posed for a photograph after filing claims against the U.S. government for...

A feature map of Cooke County, Texas, reveals the Brushy Mound community, also known as Brushy Mountain (Texas General Land Office). The...