The folks of Ely, Nevada, don’t understand the word “No.”

The folks of Ely, Nevada, don’t understand the word “No.”
Shirley McClintock has dedicated her life to preserving the history of Council Grove, Kansas.
Looting, wildfires, pollution, vandalism, time, the elements—Western ghost towns have lots of enemies. Thankfully, they’ve also got friends like...
The entire history of early Texas—from a Spanish viceroyalty, to ownership by Mexico, to the Republic of Texas to statehood—was lived by the man who...
One could argue there is enough negative about the history of Fort Apache that people might not want to come,” Karl Hoerig admits. “It’s a...
Ed Arata’s history with Sutter Creek, California, goes back to the Mother Lode days when gold was plentiful and his grandfather worked at the Knight...
First, thanks go to the Franciscan priests who established 21 missions along the California coast starting in 1769, bringing with them the first...
Emily Washines believes Yakama War history offers more than “us vs. them.” This former Miss Yakama Nation knows the American Indian perspective of...
"My Aunt Jenny had been taken by the Indians as she was four....” The family bought her back with 500 pounds of shelled corn a decade later, in the...
Volunteer hours: 9,000. That’s 375 days—more than a year of nonstop labor. That’s what it took for 75 volunteers in Hankinson, North Dakota—an...
"Grandma, you can find anything on YouTube,” Erin Ghedi’s 17-year-old granddaughter, Gabby, told her four years ago. What Erin and her husband, Jim,...
Talk about the mother lode. Imagine trying to preserve hundreds of projects in a 14,000-acre district—not only one of the nation’s largest historic...