The Index Line stretched all the way from Logansport north to the Red River.

I decided to take a look at the life of the Beeswing, a steamer on the Red River, after finding a receipt from 1844.

Between 1810 and 1813, John Maley journeyed up the Red River and visited Natchitoches twice, but didn't enjoy either visit.

In the 1950s, salty Estelline Spring at the Prairie Dog Town Fork released 300 tons of the mineral daily into the Red River.

Red River Station was the fabled crossing for the Abilene Cattle Trail at the Red River in Montague County during the 1870s and 1880s.

The Killgore Mansion is tied to the Cloud Stark Mansion of Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas... and it's not just based on the time period.

A history of a house, especially an older home, is very genealogical, like the former Killgore house on Commerce Street in Gainesville, TX.

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

The Caddo structures were so numerous that Europeans who came to the Red River labeled southwestern Arkansas "Mound City."

Evidence of the Caddo City of the Dead along Ozan Creek at Washington, Hempstead County, Arkansas has been almost entirely eliminated.

Ozan in Hempstead County, Arkansas is a true City of the Dead, a place that connected to the Battle Mound village along the Red River.

Basin Springs, Steedman aka Hagerman, and Cedar Mills and were drowned by Lake Texoma.

This 1824 German map of Arkansas Territory is a lot more illuminating than many others from the same period I've encountered.

The Red River is a shifty river, but that's not meant as an insult.

If you search "Cash Point" in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, on a map today, you'd find RV Park bearing the name, and not much else.

The Cossatot River derives from a French word meaning"crushed head," and in 1833, it was to be spanned by a toll bridge.

The Cross Timbers is well defined on this 1844 map by Josiah Gregg.

The Central National Road connected Dallas, Texas to Washington, Arkansas.

What may be the final photo of the ferry at Fulton, Hempstead County, Arkansas which crossed the Red River just below the Great Bend.

Between 1809 and 1819, a young American named Henry Ker traveled up the Red River from its mouth to its far western reaches search of gold.