Campti lies in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, just up the road from the Grand Ecore.

Built about 1830, the Washington Tavern served as a stage coach station as well as the nearest American boarding house to Mexican Texas.

Marion Post (later, Marion Post Wolcott) was the first photographer to document the Cane River Creole culture of Louisiana.

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

The people in Southwestern Arkansas before the Civil War were much more populist and had a strong free-soil expansionist base.

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

Establishing the Chickasaw Nation along the Red River proved to be a long ordeal.

The Colfax Massacre along the Red River was the most violent episode in Reconstruction Louisiana.

The Red River Valley witnessed racialist violence, based on whites deflecting, throughout the first half of the 20th century.

The public lynching of Henry Smith in Paris, Texas in 1893 was detailed in a commemorative book by his murderers.

The Choctaw Nation was the first of the "five civilized tribes" to face removal into Indian Territory.

Psychopath Cullen Baker's despicable Reconstruction-era crimes in the Red River Valley make him a mass-murderer.

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

Shreveport was prominently featured in Green Books

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

Tatums in Carter County, Oklahoma was an all-black town that enjoyed a brief oil boom.

Preston was founded by Holland Coffee, and yes, that was his real name.

Annotated editorial from the Chicago Tribune to provide some context about slavery in the Choctaw Nation.

The Chickasaws witnessed a land and genealogical invasion by Texans in the early 20th century.

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