“A visit inspires love of country; begets contentment; engenders pride of possession; contains the antidote for national restlessness. It teaches...

In its day, the “queen of the row” cost three times more for a trip upstairs than any other bordello charged in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Miss Laura...

"All the cookin’ o’ course was done at the fireplace….  Later, when we got pigs, father smoked ham an’ bacon for the winter. First after the hogs...

Scottsdale is named after Winfield Scott, but not the one you’re thinking of. The bustling, upscale city (population 221,000) takes its name from a...

In September 1897, Jefferson Randolph Smith arrived in Skagway, Alaska, to make his fortune. Most people headed north to strike it rich in the gold...

In rock ’n’ roll’s first across-the-charts hit, written on a paper bag in 1955 by Carl Perkins, the singer admonishes his dance partner not to step...

"We sincerely believe that all who see How the West Was Won, will agree that, the motion picture medium has attained its highest level of artistic...

Ezekiel Proctor was a Cherokee and proud of it. “Zeke” had walked the Trail of Tears from Georgia to the Indian Territory when he was a...