Two prominent historians are scheduled to visit the Sharlot Hall Museum to share insights from their most recent research on ...

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

In a recent bulletin of the Superintendent of the Census for 1890 appear these significant words: “Up to and including 1889 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area ...

The significance of the frontier in American history.--The first official frontier of the Massachusetts Bay.--The old West.--The Middle West.--The Ohio Valley in American history.--The significance of ...

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 ...

The Pacific as an American frontier opened in 1784 when the first U.S. ship rounded Cape Horn. According to Heffer, a French scholar and historian, the Pacific frontier saw three stages of exploration ...

Staff said Freedom's Frontier, a National Heritage Area that recognizes historic, cultural and natural resources, would have ceased to exist without federal funding. LAWRENCE, Kansas — Freedom’s ...

FORT McKAVETT, TEXAS — Here, the wind whispers stories. In lonely places such as the frontier forts in West Texas, old stories swirl through the dry breeze, slipping around the stone, wood and plaster ...

Set during the infamous Utah War in the late 1850s, Netflix's latest bingeworthy series, American Primeval, is a frontier Western that chronicles one of the harshest times in United States history.