The Comanche were one of the most powerful forces on the American frontier. Through skill, strategy, and mobility, they controlled vast regions of the Southern Plains and resisted colonial expansion ...

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 ...

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 ...

Discover how American agriculture expanded westward, from the wheat frontier to corn-and-hog farming and the rise of Midwest dairy operations ...

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 ...

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 ...