A sign welcomes arrivals to the New Mexico frontier community of Ojo Sarco (Photo Credit: Ojo Sarco Community Center). In Ojo Sarco, an unincorporated village in northern New Mexico’s Sangre de Cristo ...

A new book dives into the injustices of Manifest Destiny in the American West and its relationship to the 2016 election. Life in the American West is life in a region that has been conscripted into ...

Augusta County was once the wild, wild west. That’s right, when our area was first settled in the 1720s or so, we were the western frontier. But unlike other parts of the American frontier – western ...

QUESTION: Talk about the Frederick Jackson Turner and the American Frontier. WILLIAM CRONON: Frederick Jackson Turner's significance to the frontier in American history is that his is arguably the ...

During California’s Gold Rush era, waves of settlers flooded the region searching for wealth. But their arrival triggered one of the darkest chapters in frontier history — the Round Valley Massacre.

Wild West lessons: Texas students learned about cattle trail life, frontier cooking, and cowboy values through interactive activities. Trail history revived: Modern Oregon Trail journeys reveal ...

Kate Grenville, with The Secret River, found herself in the middle of a debate at the heart of history. Chris Boland/Flickr This article is the second in a series examining the links, problems and ...