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 ...

Learn about Ohio's early settlers during Frontier Spirit 1799 at Alley Park in Lancaster on Sept. 26-27.

Three books on early United States frontier history. The Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806) is one of the most compelling stories in American history. Searching for a water route to the Pacific, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...