The relationship between Gainesville, Texas and Indian Territory as explained by the Chickasaw Hotel.

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

Lafayette and Lost Prairie in Arkansas were built by slave labor and washed away by the Red River.

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

Colony, Washita County, Oklahoma was home to Seeger Indian Industrial School and the Dutch Reformed Church mission.

Colbert's hotel stood above his ferry, which once was replaced by a bridge in 1875 that the Red River promptly washed away.

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

The Van Dorn Trail led to a massacre and subsequently became a Trail of Tears for the Plains Indians.

Eagletown was settled within a decade of the Louisiana Purchase and was originally a station on the Choctaw Trail of Tears.

Texas likes that it's big, and between 1860 and 1894, it was actually a million and a half acres larger than it is today. That's because...

In the 1820s, the Blevins family built a primitive, two story cabin without the use of nails in today's Hempstead County, Arkansas.

Muriel Wright documented Boggy Depot well.

Around 1821, Spanish Texas became Mexican Texas.

Camp Augur in today’s Tillman County, Oklahoma was founded in 1871 to protect the tribes impacted by the Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867.

I was nosing around the digital collections listed at by the Louisiana State University (Shreveport) libraries and found the Parker map.