This week's Ken Bridges Texas History column is part 1 of a 2-part series exploring the disastrous Red River Expedition.

Had the United States not made the Louisiana Purchase, Americans would not have had access to the Mississippi River. Not one, but two different Red Rivers were the Southern and Eastern borders of ...

The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 sparked a new wave of exploration in the United States as a number of expeditions were ...

The Mississippi River left natural levees ... Founded in 1713, Natchitoches, the earliest settlement in the Louisiana Purchase, was settled by the French, creating a unique cultural pocket ...

Kossuth township is located in the southeast of the state in Des Moines County, which, ironically, no longer borders the Des Moines River and ... s 1803 Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the ...