Until the 1830s, the Disputed Territory along the Red River, where Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana meet, was a "no man's land."

Burneyville's hotel was once a real beauty, but nothing remains of it.

In May 1899. a letter in a Denison newspaper appeared about a "new, thriving, up-to-date town" named Pancanula, Chickasaw Nation.

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

S.A. Bolton explained living in a dugout in Harmon County, Oklahoma Territory to a WPA worker during the Great Depression.

Pressler's 1867 shows Warren's Trading House sandwiched between Panther and Salt Creek (TX), and near Red Creek (OK), but not on Mud Creek.

Several years ago, I took a road trip and found myself at Indian City, USA. I'm glad I did, because Indian City, USA is no more.

Ultimately, what has been destroyed in Sulphur, Oklahoma has been resurrected

An undated photograph depicts "a busy Saturday in Durant, Bryan County, Oklahoma."

Besides the calaboose, there's not much else in Devol to explain the town's former industriousness.

Is this a railroad or a wagon bridge at Colbert's bridge across the Red River?

This photograph depicts "part of Satanta's Kiowa Band at Sutler's Store, Fort Sill, Indian Territory" by either Soule or Bliss.

In 1929, the U.S. legislature wanted to eliminate toll bridges across the Red River (and other places) due to scandalous behavior.

Recovering the dead from the Little Bolen Coal Mine aka Old Town Mine after an explosion in McAlester, Oklahoma in 1929.

Muriel Wright and Chester Howe explained different versions of how the state of Oklahoma achieved its name.

A new Oklahoma county named Swanson would boast Mountain Park as its temporary county seat in 1910-1911.

From 1893 to 1920, Rainy Mountain Indian School "Americanized" children from the Kiowa and Apache tribes, and now lies as an unmarked ruin.

The only available photographic documentation of an execution carried out by the Choctaw Nation's Lighthorsemen.

The Pawnee/ Wichita village that George Catlin sketched was abandoned by the 1860s.

The "Willis Bridge" now connects Oklahoma to Texas over Lake Texoma along US 377.