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

Native American Church members ... for religious purposes. Tribes have compared peyote to the Eucharist in Catholicism. The peyote plant had grown abundantly in Texas and northern Mexico in ...

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