This video examines the Great Raid of 1840, one of the largest and most devastating raids in frontier history. Hundreds of warriors crossed vast distances, attacking settlements and spreading panic ...

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 ...

Life in the American West is life in a region that has been conscripted into the service of the nation’s frontier myth. Nowhere are the absurdities and tragedies of this myth more apparent than in the ...

Fort Smith, Arkansas, holds nearly 80 years of dramatic frontier history, from military beginnings to the notorious days of Judge Isaac C. Parker. Visitors can explore preserved forts, the ‘Hell on ...

‘Horrendous’ eight-year long project has ended with final fact check, leaving a legacy ‘nobody can argue’ with, says researcher The final findings of the “horrendous” eight-year long “massacre map”, ...

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 ...

The making of an American frontier -- The arrival of archaeology and the shadow of Lincoln -- Before the Americans -- The Americans -- At home, 1800-1840 -- Under the house, behind the house -- Goods ...