By jingo, does everybody in Hannibal, Missouri, think he’s Mark Twain—the driver on the tour bus, the guide at the Mark Twain Cave, even Mark Twain...

By jingo, does everybody in Hannibal, Missouri, think he’s Mark Twain—the driver on the tour bus, the guide at the Mark Twain Cave, even Mark Twain...
Screeching and yelling “like so many devils,” the Blackfeet grabbed at the driftwood raft hovering above the swimming naked man. Although humiliated...
Nathan Meeker raised a crop of distrust, anger and resentment among the Utes that led to disaster. In one of his first acts as agent, Meeker...
And they said it would never last. But here she is, Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plains, hitting the century mark. Oklahoma, a...
And they said it would never last. But here she is, Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plains, hitting the century mark. Oklahoma, a...
The Civil War was gonna be won in the West, Sherman told Grant after the second bloody day at Shiloh. Okay, so that was John Wayne’s William T....
The Civil War was gonna be won in the West, Sherman told Grant after the second bloody day at Shiloh. Okay, so that was John Wayne’s William T....
The 4x4 pickup slides in the mud as Patricia Chesser and I head toward the branding corrals on the Burnt Well Guest Ranch outside of Roswell, New...
I'm in Madison County, Iowa, not to view all those covered bridges, though they are charming, but to pay tribute to a great American. Unheralded....
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark wrote often of encounters with Ursus horribilis—grizzly bears—as they made their pioneering journey across the...
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark wrote often of encounters with Ursus horribilis—grizzly bears—as they made their pioneering journey across the...
The landscape along the Whoop-Up Trail was “rolling prairie, cut up occasionally by collies [coulees]—covered with short, dried up grass and prickly...