In the 1850s, a rough and tumble civilian settlement called Scabtown sprouted near Camp San Saba, a military outpost ...

Kathleen Schneider gives a sewing lesson to her granddaughter, Amanda Maloney, during an open house Thursday at Schneider’s Fort in Washington Park. The fort was named in honor of Schneider’s husband, ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Debra Ball doesn’t go out of her way to mention it, but when people ask what the life of a frontier woman was like, she tells them the truth. “It’s kind of ...

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 ...

JAMESTOWN, N.D. - The World's Largest Buffalo isn't fat. The 60-ton concrete-and-metal bison was just sculpted that way. From his post at the end of 17th Street Southeast, Dakota Thunder has presided ...

NEAR ST. JAMES, Neb. | The tall, stone monument stands amid a quiet, wooded area disturbed only when a vehicle passes by on the county road nearby. The peaceful setting is in stark contrast to the ...

There have been revisionist histories of America and the American West at least since the middle of the sixteenth century, when the priest-historian Bartolomé de las Casas accused his fellow Spaniards ...

Tom Griffiths received a writer's fellowship from Varuna, Eleanor Dark's former home in Katoomba. This article is the second in a series examining the links, problems and dynamics of writing, ...