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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PROFESSOR TURNER modestly calls the papers in this volume ‘reconnaissances’; but they are a cumulative series of studies presenting the leading influences that have made the United States. The ...

Peacock prepares to premiere High Horse: The Black Cowboy on Nov. 20, a three-part documentary that confronts and reclaims Wild West mythology while revealing the largely untold story of Black cowboys ...

A leading scholar on the American West, Dr. John Mack Faragher, and Kenn Thomas, an expert on the John F. Kennedy assassination, will be featured Sunday on the "Going Public" radio show. Faragher ...

For decades, Hollywood has shaped the myth of the American West through its fixation on cowboys and Indians — a genre that has dominated cinema and television with romanticized portrayals of frontier ...