Life on the American frontier was filled with dangers, and many settlers relied on strange beliefs to make sense of them.

Netflix's new Little House on the Prairie is reviving interest in frontier life. Discover the log cabins that reveal West ...

This video examines the Great Raid of 1840, one of the largest and most devastating raids in frontier history. Hundreds of warriors crossed vast distances, attacking settlements and spreading panic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fort Smith, Arkansas, holds nearly 80 years of dramatic frontier history, from military beginnings to the notorious days of Judge Isaac C. Parker. Visitors can explore preserved forts, the ‘Hell on ...

The Texas Rangers, an elite state law-enforcement agency that enjoys a legendary image in wider American culture, was formally proposed on this day in history, Oct. 17, 1835. "The Rangers are part of ...

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 ...