That meandering river.

• Position: Stateline - Red River - Brief Article

In the 1820s, when officials of the then-Arkansas Territory chose the Red River as a boundary for its southwest counties, they probably had no idea what confusion that would cause in the following years. You see, a river floods, erodes and gets dammed-up, changing its course over time. The river now forms the line between Texas and Oklahoma. Those two states decided to settle the debate over the shifting channel by defining the boundary line as the vegetation line on...