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 ...

Long before Roswell or modern UFO sightings, the American frontier was filled with reports of mysterious lights, flying machines, and strange visitors. Cowboys, sheriffs, ranchers, and even mayors ...

Native America History Day has been held at the Frontier Culture Museum for the past several years. There are no announced ...

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 ...

Peter Boag is a professor and the Columbia Chair in the History of the American West at Washington State University Vancouver. He co-curated the exhibit and joins us with more details. Note: The ...

Frontier Days was held in July 1925 at Frontier Park (now Hawkeye Downs) in Cedar Rapids. (Ralph R. Doubleday via The History Center) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using ...

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 ...

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 ...