Explore Kansas frontier history on this 5-day road trip from Council Grove to Dodge City. Follow the Santa Fe Trail through ...

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 ...

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 ...

Biographies of Jeff Bezos don't make much of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Although the founder and executive chairman of Amazon lived there from birth until his teenage years, the Duke City is mainly ...

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 ...

Many, many years ago, when I was a youngster, history class ranked somewhere between having dental work done and waiting in line at the DMV. But now that I’m in my fabulous 50s, I’ve found myself ...

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, ...