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 ...

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 ...

During California’s Gold Rush era, waves of settlers flooded the region searching for wealth. But their arrival triggered one of the darkest chapters in frontier history — the Round Valley Massacre.

Kate Grenville, with The Secret River, found herself in the middle of a debate at the heart of history. Chris Boland/Flickr This article is the second in a series examining the links, problems and ...

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 ...