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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Scorching deserts, tumbleweeds, and lassos are all the classically accepted stereotypes when one begins to think about the Lone Star State. Texas requires little introduction on the American stage of ...

Not too long ago, historians of the American West joined their artistic brethren in celebrating what we now think of as the “Old West.” For historians and artists, the “winning of the West” was a ...